The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many a giant to a pygmy; many a speech to a sentence; and many a folio to a primer.

God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them

Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.

Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.

There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.