Abuse is an indirect species of homage.

The amiable is the voluptuous in expression or manner. The sense of pleasure in ourselves is that which excites it in others; or, the art of pleasing is to seem pleased.

There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.

It might be argued, that to be a knave is the gift of fortune, but to play the fool to advantage it is necessary to be a learned man.

We have more faith in a well-written romance while we are reading it than in common history. The vividness of the representations in the one case more than counterbalances the mere knowledge of the truth of facts in the other.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken