When we bring back with us the objects most dear, and find those we left unchanged, we are tempted to doubt the lapse of time; but one link in the chain of affection broken, and every thing seems altered.

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

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Society punishes not the vices of its members, but their detection.

Bores: People who talk of themselves, when you are thinking only of yourself.

A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question.

Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.