Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

That soul-subduing sentiment, harshly called flirtation, which is the spell of a country house.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

The indulgence in grief is a blunder.

No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition. It reduces their supporters to that tractable number which can be managed by the joint influences of fruition and hope. It offers vengeance to the discontented, and distinction to the ambitious; and employs the energies of aspiring spirits, who otherwise may prove traitors in a division or assassins in a debate.