Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord JeffreyDerision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord JeffreyThe cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord JeffreyDamn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.
Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey