Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.

Judaism is not complete without Christianity and without Judaism, Christianity would not exist.

A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists.

The right hon. Gentleman [Sir Robert Peel] caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes.

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

The originality of a subject is in its treatment.