But how cool, how quiet is true courage!

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

While all the pomp and circumstance of war animated others, it only saddened me; and all of past reflection, all of future dread, made the whole grandeur of the martial scene, and all the delusive seduction of martial music, fill my eyes frequently with tears.

People who live together naturally catch the looks and air of one another and without having one feature alike, they contract a something in the whole countenance which strikes one as a resemblance

The laws of custom make our [returning a visit] necessary. O how I hate this vile custom which obliges us to make slaves of ourselves! to sell the most precious property we boast, our time;--and to sacrifice it to every prattling impertinent who chooses to demand it!

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.