There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.

Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice, that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without any very accurate inquiry whether it is right.

"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

There is no kind of idleness by which we are so easily seduced as that which dignifies itself by the appearance of business.

The dangers gather as the treasures rise.

Words too familiar, or too remote, defeat the purpose of a poet. From those sounds which we hear on small or on coarse occasions, we do not easily receive strong impressions, or delightful images; and words to which we are nearly strangers, whenever they occur, draw that attention on themselves which they should transmit to other things.

Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse.