Pride can go without domestics, without fine clothes, can live in a house with two rooms, can eat potato, purslain, beans, lyed corn, can work on the soil, can travel afoot, can talk with poor men, or sit silent well contented with fine saloons. But vanity costs money, labor, horses, men, women, health and peace, and is still nothing at last; a long way leading nowhere.--Only one drawback; proud people are intolerably selfish, and the vain are gentle and giving.

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

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

Nature paints the best part of a picture, carves the best parts of the statue, builds the best part of the house, and speaks the best part of the oration.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers.

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve.