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.

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

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

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

There is a certain flimsiness of poetry which seems expedient in a song.

Anger and the thirst of revenge are a kind of fever; fighting and lawsuits, bleeding,--at least, an evacuation. The latter occasions a dissipation of money; the former, of those fiery spirits which cause a preternatural fermentation.

Those who are incapable of shining out by dress would do well to consider that the contrast between them and their clothes turns out much to their disadvantage.