Men of quality never appear more amiable than when their dress is plain. Their birth, rank, title and its appendages are at best indivious and as they do not need the assistance of dress, so, by their disclaiming the advantage of it, they make their superiority sit more easy.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends.

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.