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.

The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from his obscurity. They never once consider that he is breaking the ice for themselves.

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

Some men are called sagacious, merely on account of their avarice; whereas a child can clench its fist the moment it is born.

A person that would secure to himself great deference will, perhaps, gain his point by silence as effectually as by anything he can say.

Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.

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.