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

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

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.

Fools are very often united in the strictest intimacies, as the lighter kinds of woods are the most closely glued together.

Let us be careful to distinguish modesty, which is ever amiable, from reserve, which is only prudent.

Fashion is a great restraint upon your persons of taste and fancy; who would otherwise in the most trifling instances be able to distinguish themselves from the vulgar.

It is true there is nothing displays a genius, I mean a quickness of genius, more than a dispute; as two diamonds, encountering, contribute to each other's luster. But perhaps the odds is much against the man of taste in this particular.