An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

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

Even in social life, it is persistency which attracts confidence, more than talents and accomplishments.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of time in the light skiff of apothegm or epigram; and the proverbs of nations, which embody the commonsense of nations, have the brisk concussion of the most sparkling wit.

The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.

In most old communities there is a common sense even in sensuality. Vice itself gets gradually digested into a system, is amenable to certain laws of conventional propriety and honor, has for its object simply the gratification of its appetites, and frowns with quite a conservative air on all new inventions, all untried experiments in iniquity.