When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.

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

The admiration of power in others is as common to man as the love of it in himself; the one makes him a tyrant, the other a slave.

A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

We prefer ourselves to others, only because we a have more intimate consciousness and confirmed opinion of our own claims and merits than of any other person's.