Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.

Nothing is certain in London but expense.

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

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.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.