Time makes friendship stronger, but love weaker.

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

A man of moderate Understanding, thinks he writes divinely: A man of good Understanding, thinks he writes reasonably.