A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.

Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought.

She commands who is blest with indifference.