Taste and good-nature are universally connected.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

Nothing is sure in London, except expense.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

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.

Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.