Success is a fruit of slow growth.

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

Guilt, on the contrary, like a base thief, suspects every eye that beholds him to be privy to his transgressions, and every tongue that mentions his name to be proclaiming them.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person.

It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.