But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends.

There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help.

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement.