Anger is a great force. If you control it, it can be transmuted into a power which can move the whole world.

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

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.

A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.

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.

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.