There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.

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

Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot wonder at the perversity and waywardness of the child.

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

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.

There is no flattery so adroit or effectual as that of implicit assent.

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.