Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.

There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth

such is the effect of true politeness, that it banishes all restraint and embarassment.

We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.

Nothing is so delicate as the reputation of a woman; it is at once the most beautiful and most brittle of all human things.