Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

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

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

People can commend the weather without envy.

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

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.

Theirs is the present who can praise the past.