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.

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.