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

A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life.

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.

In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

Laws are generally found to be nets of such a texture, as the little creep through, the great break through, and the middle-sized are alone entangled in it.