Criticism even should not be without its charms. When quite devoid of all amenities, it is no longer literary.

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

A man who shows no defect is a fool or a hypocrite, whom we should mistrust. There are defects so bound to fine qualities that they announce them,--defects which it is well not to correct.

Man is born with the faculty of speech. Who gives it to him? He who gives the bird its song.

How many books there are whose reputation is made that would not obtain it were it now to make?

Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings.