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

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

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.

I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that the nature of servitude generally bears a contrary tendency. People's characters are to be chiefly collected from their education and place in life; birth itself does but little.

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

Glory relaxes often and debilitates the mind; censure stimulates and contracts,--both to an extreme. Simple fame is, perhaps, the proper medium.