Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.
Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.
People can commend the weather without envy.
Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.
The fund of sensible discourse is limited; that of jest and badinerie is infinite.