The surest plan to make a man is, think him so.

The intellect has only one failing, which, to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Fashion being the art of those who must purchase notice at some cheaper rate than that of being beautiful, loves to do rash and extravagant things. She must be forever new, or she becomes insipid.

They talk about their Pilgrim blood, their birthright high and holy! a mountain-stream that ends in mud thinks is melancholy.

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing.