Paltry affectation, strained allusions, and disgusting finery are easily attained by those who choose to wear them; they are but too frequently the badges of ignorance or of stupidity, whenever it would endeavor to please.

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.

The fortunate circumstances of our lives are generally found, at last, to be of our own producing.

Prudery is ignorance.

The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

Girls like to be played with and rumpled a little too sometimes.

To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.