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

What leads to unhappiness is making pleasure the chief aim.

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

Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.

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

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.

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