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

But how cool, how quiet is true courage!

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

to be sure, marriage is all in all with the ladies; but with us gentlemen it's quite another thing!

How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if astranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.

Credulity is the sister of innocence.

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