One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage.

Find out the cause of this effect,Or rather say, the cause of this defect,For this effect defective comes by cause.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.