First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination.

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

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

Despair swallows up cowardice.

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

A person who talks with equal vivacity on every subject, excites no interest in any. Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.