Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests his heart in every thing, and who, having eyes to see, what time and chance are perpetually holding out to him as he journeyeth on his way, misses nothing he can fairly lay his hands on.

Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

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

Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.