The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks if this be joy.

Like the tiger, that seldom desists from pursuing man after having once preyed upon human flesh, the reader who has once gratified his appetite with calumny makes ever after the most agreeable feast upon murdered reputations!

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for instructors.

Little things are great to little men.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.