A gentleman's taste in dress is upon principle, the avoidance of all things extravagant. It consists in the quiet simplicity of exquisite neatness; but, as the neatness must be a neatness in fashion, employ the best tailor; pay him ready money, and, on the whole, you wi11 find him the cheapest.

Tears are akin to prayer - Pharisees parade prayers, imposters parade tears.

A pipe is the fountain of contemplation, the source of pleasure, the companion of the wise; and the man who smokes, thinks like a philosopher and acts like a Samaritan.

There are two avenues from the little passions and the drear calamities of earth; both lead to the heaven and away from hell-Art and Science. But art is more godlike than science; science discovers, art creates.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it