Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

The masses procure their opinions ready made in open market.

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason.

To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic of true taste and feeling is what no man without genius could be if he would.

There are male as well as female gossips.

Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.