Such humble talents as God had given me I will endeavour to put to their greatest use; if I am able to amuse, I will try to benefit too; and when I fell it my duty to speak unpalatable truth, with the help of God, I will speak it, through it be to the prejudice of my name and to the detriment of my reader's immediate pleasure as well as my own.

Because I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.

Then, you must fall each into your proper place. You'll do your business, and she, if she's worthy of you, will do hers; but it's your business to please yourself, and hers to please you.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.

If the generous ideas of youth are too often over- clouded by the sordid views of after-life, that scarcely proves them to be false

What business had I to think so much of one that never thought of me?

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.