Do you not want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.

I trust that absolutes have gradations.

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering.

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance

If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it.

I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income.