Reserve is no more essentially connected with understanding than a church organ with devotion, or wine with good-nature.

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.

The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.

People can commend the weather without envy.

Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

Immoderate assurance is perfect licentiousness.