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

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Aspiring beggary is wretchedness itself.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm,- Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

The watch-dog's voice that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.