Since all the maids are good and lovable, from whence come the bad wives?

'T is sweet to think that where'er we rove We are sure to find something blissful and dear; And that when we 're far from the lips we love, We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.

No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.

Cultivate simplicity or rather should I say banish elaborateness, for simplicity springs spontaneous from the heart.

Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and to have nonsense respected.

A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.

A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity.