Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
Good temper is one of the great preservers of the features.
The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste.
Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.
Most of the methods for measuring the lapse of time have, I believe, been the contrivance of monks and religious recluses, who, finding time hang heavy on their hands, were at some pains to see how they got rid of it.
A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.