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.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

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

Men are sometimes accused of pride, merely because their accusers would be proud themselves were they in their places.

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

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.

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.