The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.

Embosom'd in the deep where Holland lies. Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land.

I fancy the character of a poet is in every country the same,--fond of enjoying the present, careless of the future; his conversation that of a man of sense, his actions those of a fool.

And learn the luxury of doing good.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!