Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty.

He who fears not, is to be feared.

We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.