Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.

The best time to frame an answer to the letters of a friend, is the moment you receive them. Then the warmth of friendship, and the intelligence received, most forcibly cooperate.

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.

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

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

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

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.