Sneering springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge bitter enough; but a second failure, and he is quite desperate in his damnation. I do believe one half of the injustice - the severity of 'the ungentle craft' originates in its own want of success: they cannot forgive the popularity which has passed them over.

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

The lover and the physician are each popular from the same cause - we talk to them of nothing but ourselves.

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.