Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.

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.

Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

A source of cheerfulness to a good mind is the consideration of that Being on whom we have our dependence, and in whom, though we behold Him as yet but in the first faint discoveries of His perfections, we see everything that we can imagine as great glorious, or amiable. We find ourselves everywhere upheld by His goodness and surrounded by an immensity of love and mercy.

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.