In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.