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

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison

Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation.

You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience.