He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

In answering an opponent, arrange your ideas, but not your words.

There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.

The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.

The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.

It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.

Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.