The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.

It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that never wore real armor, and it is but of late that it has been discovered to have no real jurisdiction.