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

And learn the luxury of doing good.

The loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

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

Whenever you see a gaming table be sure to know fortune is not there. Rather she is always in the company of industry.

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.

I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.