It is almost always the unhappiness of a victorious disputant to destroy his own authority by claiming too many consequences, or diffusing his proposition to an indefensible extent.

Rags will always make their appearance where they have a right to do it.

We often look with indifference on the successive parts of something that, if the whole were seen together, would shake us with emotion.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.