If once a woman breaks through the barriers of decency, her ease is desperate; and if she goes greater lengths than the men, and leaves the pale of propriety farther behind her, it is because she is aware that all return is prohibited, and by none so strongly as by her own sex.

Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.

Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.

An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

The hate which we all bear with the most Christian patience is the hate of those who envy us.

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.

Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.