We never do anything well till we cease to think about the manner of doing it.

There is not a more mean, stupid, dastardly, pitiful, selfish, spiteful, envious, ungrateful animal than the Public. It is the greatest of cowards, for it is afraid of itself.

If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to those who receive them with coldness, and return them with neglect.

Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke.

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

Love and joy are twins or born of each other.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.