Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a grey one.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Genius now and then produces a lucky trifle. We still read the Dove of Anacreon, and Sparrow of Catullus; and a writer naturally pleases himself with a performance which owes nothing to the subject.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Cucumber should be well sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.

More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.

Every state of society is as luxurious as it can be. Men always take the best they can get.