There are charms made only for distant admiration.
Riches exclude only one inconvenience,--that is, poverty.
Sir, it is wrong to stir up law-suits; but when once it is certain that a law-suit is to go on, there is nothing wrong in a lawyer's endeavouring that he shall have the benefit, rather than another.
A fallible being will fail somewhere.
Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be known to want. Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation part of the chosen trappings of folly.