Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
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?
Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.