Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.