A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.

I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality.

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

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.

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

The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety.

Zealous men are ever displaying to you the strength of their belief. while judicious men are showing you the grounds of it.