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.

I would hardly change the sorrowful words of the poets for their glad ones. Tears dampen the strings of the lyre, but they grow the tensor for it, and ring even the clearer and more ravishingly.

What visionary tints the year puts on, When falling leaves falter through motionless air Or numbly cling and shiver to be gone! How shimmer the low flats and pastures bare, As with her nectar Hebe Autumn fills The bowl between me and those distant hills, And smiles and shakes abroad her misty, tremulous hair!

A ginooine statesman should be on his guard, if he must hev beliefs, not to b'lieve 'em too hard.

A word once vulgarized can never be rehabilitated.

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.