When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.

Ten cooks' shops! ...and all within three minutes' driving! one would think that all the cooks in the world ...had said - Come, let us all go live at Paris: the French love good eating - they are all gourmands - we shall rank high.

There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.

Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.

I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken your hypothesis by placing a number of tall, opake words, one before another, in a right line, betwixt your own and your readers conception.

I would go fifty miles on foot to kiss the hand of that man whose generous heart will give up the reins of his imagination into his Author's hands; be pleased, he knows not why, and cares not wherefore.

It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.