Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Patience is the panacea; but where does it grow, or who can swallow it?

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

Nothing is sure in London, except expense.

People can commend the weather without envy.