Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.

I know not whether increasing years do not cause us to esteem fewer people and to bear with more.

Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.