Some men use no other means to acquire respect than by insisting on it; and it sometimes answers their purpose, as it does a highwayman's in regard to money.

Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

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.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

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