Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right, no matter what they are.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride. - Lacon, 1825.

The shortest distance between new friends is a smile.

As large as life, and twice as natural.

He had a certain air of being a handsome man--which he was not; and a certain air of being a well-bred man--which he was not. It was mere swagger and challenge; but in this particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.

To copy beauty forfeits all pretense to fame; to copy faults is want of sense.