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 regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.

Love can be founded upon Nature only.

May I always have a heart superior, with economy suitable, to my fortune.

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.