My banks they are furnish'd with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep.

People can commend the weather without envy.

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.

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.

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

It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

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.