The impromptu reply is precisely the touchstone of the man of wit.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living.

Esteem must be founded on some sort of preference. Bestow it on everybody and it ceases to have any meaning at all.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!