I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.

I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

Five is the very awkwardest of all posible numbers to sit down to table.

Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise.

There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it.

Look into your own heart because who looks outside, dreams, but who looks inside awakes.

Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it.