The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.

To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit.

No man is in love when he marries. He may have loved before; I have even heard he has sometimes loved after: but at the time never. There is something in the formalities of the matrimonial preparations that drive away all the little cupidons.

Travelling is the ruin of all happiness. There's no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.

Well of all things in the world, I don't suppose anything can be so dreadful as a public wedding--my stars!--I should never be able to support it!

You must not sneeze. If you have a vehement cold you must take no notice of it; if your nose membranes feel a great irritation you must hold your breath; if a sneeze still insists upon making its way you must oppose it keeping your teeth grinding together; if the violence of the pulse breaks some blood-vessel you must break the blood-vessel -- but not sneeze.

I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.