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.

We may daily discover crowds acquire sufficient wealth to buy gentility, but very few that possess the virtues which ennoble human nature, and (in the best sense of the word) constitute a gentleman.

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.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

Nothing is certain in London but expense.

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.