“Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.”

“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”

“A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.”

“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?”

“Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.”

“Else if you would be a man speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon balls, and to-morrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.”

“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.”