The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?

A woman can keep one secret the secret of her age.

Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite.