Our minds need relaxation, and give way unless we mix with work a little play.
Birth is nothing where virtue is not
Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors.
What! Would you make no distinction between hypocrisy and devotion? Would you give them the same names, and respect the mask as you do the face? Would you equate artifice and sincerity? Confound appearance with truth? Regard the phantom as the very person? Value counterfeit as cash?
The secret to fencing consists in two things: to give and to not receive.
In clothes as well as speech, the man of sense Will shun all these extremes that give offense, Dress unaffectedly, and, without haste, Follow the changes in the current taste.
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which may annoy.
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