Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.

Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.

If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.

There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.

As we ascend in society, like those who climb a mountain, we shall find that the line of perpetual congelation commences with the higher circles; and the nearer we approach to the grand luminary the court, the more frigidity and apathy shall we experience.