Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

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

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

It happens a little unluckily that the persons who have the most infinite contempt of money are the same that have the strongest appetite for the pleasures it procures.

The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

Long sentences in a short composition are like large rooms in a little house.