The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.

Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence of imposition. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things.

A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.

We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.

A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.

A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.

Every style formed elaborately on any model must be affected and straight-laced.