Love can be founded upon Nature only.

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

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

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.

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

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.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.