The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

I like a person who knows his own mind and sticks to it; who sees at once what, in given circumstances, is to be done, and does it.

There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it.

Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.

There is no prejudice so strong as that which arises from a fancied exemption from all prejudice.

The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices.

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.