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

Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

A broken heart is a distemper which kills many more than is generally imagined, and would have a fair title to a place in the bills of mortality, did it not differ in one instance from all other diseases, namely, that no physicians can cure it.

Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.