A little grain of the romance is no ill ingredient to preserve and exalt the dignity of human nature, without which it is apt to degenerate into everything that is sordid, vicious and low.
A lie is an excuse guarded
A chuck under the chin is worth two kisses.
By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.
Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.