Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.

In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

Every single instance of a friend's insincerity increases our dependence on the efficacy of money.

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.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.