An indiscreet man is more hurtful than an ill-natured one; for as the latter will only attack his enemies, and those he wishes ill to, the other injures indifferently both friends and foes.

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.