His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

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.

I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such.

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both.

If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.