A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.

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.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.

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