Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.

For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, is, to suppose him soso here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the characterof generosity and virtue.

I am positive I have a soul; nor can all the books with which materialists have pestered the world ever convince me to the contrary.