Beauty too often sacrifices to fashion.

An author is like a baker; it is for him to make the sweets, and others to buy and enjoy them.

The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

A friend of ours, who is an admirer of Isaac Walton, was struck, just as we were, with the likeness of the old angler's face to a fish.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.