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.

A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

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.

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.