Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.

No metaphysician ever felt the deficiency of language so much as the grateful.

If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.