A good form strikes all eyes pleasantly, long before they have any science on the subject; and a beautiful face sets twenty hearts in palpitation, prior to all consideration of the mechanical proportions of the features and head.

Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, "If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?"

It is always a practical difficulty with clubs to regulate the laws of election so as to exclude peremptorily every social nuisance. Nobody wishes bad manners. We must have loyalty and character.

A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.

Talent is commonly developed at the expense of character.

Take the place and attitude to which you see your unquestionable right, and all men acquiesce.

The service a man renders his friend is trivial and selfish, compared with the service he knows his friend stood in readiness to yield him, alike before he had begun to serve his friend, and now also. Compared with that good-will I bear my friend, the benefit it is in my power to render him seems small.