Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.

The perception of the beautiful is gradual, and not a lightning revelation; it requires not only time, but some study.

All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.

Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.

Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.

Travelers describe a tree in the island of Java whose pestiferous exhalations blight every tiny blade of grass within the compass of its shade. So it is with despotism.