So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves; and then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty; and simplicity is essential to grandeur.

Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.

The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive.