The most reserved of men, that will not exchange two syllables together in an English coffee-house, should they meet at Ispahan, would drink sherbet and eat a mess of rice together.

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.

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.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

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

So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.