There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.
There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.
The moderns cannot reach their beauties, but can avoid their imperfections.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
My heart leaps at the trumpet's voice.
Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him.