What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

London is a modern Babylon.

Departure should be sudden.

All my successes have been built on my failures.

Individuals may form communities, but it is institutions alone that can create a nation.

Coquettes are, but too rare. It is a career that requires great abilities, infinite pains, a gay and airy spirit. 'T is the coquette who provides all the amusements,--suggests the riding-party, plans the picnic, gives and guesses charades, acts them. She is the stirring element amid the heavy congeries of social atoms,--the soul of the house, the salt of the banquet.

It is the lot of man to suffer; it is also his fortune to forget. Oblivion and sorrow share our being, as darkness and light divide the course of time.