People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

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

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

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