It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides.

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

A good countenance is a letter of recommendation.