Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Gossip columnists are diseases, like 'flu. Everyone is subject to them.

Beauty is a social necessity.

Praise in the beginning is agreeable enough; and we receive it as a favor; but when it comes in great quantities, we regard it only as a debt, which nothing but our merit could extort.

If you see a bandwagon, it's too late.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.