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

I trimmed my lamp, consumed the midnight oil.

A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

In a heavy oppressive atmosphere, when the spirits sink too low, the best cordial is to read over all the letters of one's friends.

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

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.