Many sensible things banished from high life find an asylum among the mob.

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks.

The entire merit of a man can never be made known; nor the sum of his demerits, if he have them. We are only known by our names; as letters sealed up, we but read each other's superscriptions.

Tis no dishonor when he who would dishonor you, only dishonors himself.