Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.
Walk groundly, talk profoundly, drink roundly, sleep soundly.
The difference between the vanity of a Frenchman and an Englishman seems to be this: the one thinks everything right that is French, the other thinks everything wrong that is not English.
Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.
Genius only leaves behind it the monuments of its strength.
The present is an age of talkers, and not of doers; and the reason is, that the world is growing old. We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and dote on past achievement.