Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.
Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.
I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.
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.
It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.
A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.
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.
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.
In every village marked with little spire, Embowered in trees, and hardly known to fame.
I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.
Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.
Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.
Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
It seems with wit and good-nature, Utrum horum mavis accipe. Taste and good-nature are universally connected.
The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.
Critics must excuse me if I compare them to certain animals called asses, who, by gnawing vines, originally taught the great advantage of pruning them.
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