A Truly Elegant Taste Is

The Good Or Evil We Confer On Others Very Often, I Believe, Recoils On Ourselves; For As Men Of A Benign Disposition Enjoy Their Own Acts Of Beneficence Equally With Those To Whom They Are Done, So There Are Scarce Any Natures So Entirely Diabolical As To Be Capable Of Doing Injuries Without Paying Themselves Some Pangs For The Ruin Which They Bring On Their Fellow-creatures.

Lo, When Two Dogs Are Fighting In The Streets, With A Third Dog One Of The Two Dogs Meets; With Angry Teeth He Bites Him To The Bone, And This Dog Smarts For What That Dog Has Done.

Thy Modesty 's A Candle To Thy Merit.

The Highest Friendship Must Always Lead Us To The Highest Pleasure.

The Excellence Of The Mental Entertainment Consists Less In The Subject Than In The Author's Skill In Well Dressing It Up.