People can commend the weather without envy.

Deference often shrinks and withers as much upon the approach of intimacy as the sensitive plant does upon the touch of one's finger.

It should seem that indolence itself would incline a person to be honest, as it requires infinitely greater pains and contrivance to be a knave.

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

There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

A court of heraldry sprung up to supply the place of crusade exploits, to grant imaginary shields and trophies to families that never wore real armor, and it is but of late that it has been discovered to have no real jurisdiction.