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 rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

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

It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. They are sensitive plants, which will not bear too familiar approaches.

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

A fool and his words are soon parted.