Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Harmony of period and melody of style have greater weight than is generally imagined in the judgment we pass upon writing and writers. As a proof of this, let us reflect what texts of scripture, what lines in poetry, or what periods we most remember and quote, either in verse or prose, and we shall find them to be only musical ones.

A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

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

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.