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

When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason to asperse his honesty if he finds himself deceived.

I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.

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

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