Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

Be just before you are generous.

That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.