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

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.

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

There are no persons more solicitous about the preservation of rank than those who have no rank at all. Observe the humors of a country christening, and you will find no court in Christendom so ceremonious as the quality of Brentford.

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

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