Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.

Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence.

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

Prudent men lock up their motives, letting familiars have a key to their hearts, as to their garden.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.

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.