Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.

It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best

Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death.

My good opinion once lost is lost forever.

I have read your book, and I disapprove.

She mediated, by turns, on broken promises and broken arches, phaetons and false hangings, Tilneys and trap-doors.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.