Fashion understands itself; good-breeding and personal superiority of whatever country readily fraternize with those of every other. The chiefs of savage tribes have distinguished themselves in London and Paris, by the purity of their tournure.

The State is a poor, good beast who means the best: it means friendly.

I see my trees repair their boughs.

The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue.

The poet's habit of living should be set on a key so low that the common influences should delight him.

It is the fault of our rhetoric that we cannot strongly state one fact without seeming to belie some other.

The hero is suffered to be himself.