The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

The public man needs but one patron, namely, the lucky moment.

Jewelry and profuse ornaments are unmistakable evidences of vulgarity.

They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations.

Character is money; and according as the man earns or spends the money, money in turn becomes character. As money is the most evident power in the world's uses, so the use that he makes of money is often all that the world knows about a man.

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.