Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar; and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.

Youth is in danger until it learns to look upon debts as furies.

The secret of fashion is to surprise and never to disappoint.

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe!

Life, that ever needs forgiveness, has, for its first duty, to forgive.

Man must be disappointed with the lesser things of life before he can comprehend the full value of the greater.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday.