Every man in the time of courtship and in the first entrance of marriage, puts on a behavior like my correspondent's holiday suit.

Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens the water about him till he becomes invisible.

The schoolboy counts the time till the return of the holidays; the minor longs to be of age; the lover is impatient till he is married.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

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 no passion that is not finely expressed in those parts of the inspired writings which are proper for divine songs and anthems.