Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

It is virtue which should determine us in the choice of our friends, without inquiring into their good or evil fortune.

It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

A man's worth is estimated in this world according to his conduct.

A man unattached and without wife, if he have any genius at all, may raise himself above his original position, may mingle with the world of fashion, and hold himself on a level with the highest; this is less easy for him who is engaged; it seems as if marriage put the whole world in their proper rank.

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?