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

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.

However, I think a plain space near the eye gives it a kind of liberty it loves; and then the picture, whether you choose the grand or beautiful, should be held up at its proper distance. Variety is the principal ingredient in beauty; and simplicity is essential to grandeur.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

The regard one shows economy, is like that we show an old aunt who is to leave us something at last.