O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.

Never shall I recollect the occasion he gave me of displeasure, without feeling it renewed.

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

Childhood is never troubled with foresight.

There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that will go to jail for me, or an enemy that will run me through the body!

But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.

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.