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 chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

Taste is the power of relishing or rejecting whatever is offered for the entertainment of the imagination.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.

Wealth accumulates, and men decay.