How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.

A gift--its kind, its value and appearance; the silence or the pomp that attends it; the style in which it reaches you--may decide the dignity or vulgarity of the giver.

The freer you feel yourself in the presence of another, the more free is he...

The mingled incentives which lead to action are often too subtle and lie too deep for us to analyze.

He who freely praises what he means to purchase, and he who enumerates the faults of what he means to sell, may set up a partnership with honesty.