When does the mind put forth its powers? when are the stores of memory unlocked? when does wit 'flash from fluent lips?' -- when but after a good dinner? Who will deny its influence on the affections? Half our friends are born of turbots and truffles.

Curiosity and courtesy are very often at variance.

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

Oh, only those whose souls have felt this one idolatry can tell how precious is the slightest thing affection gives and hallows.

What is life? A gulf of troubled waters, where the soul, like a vexed bark, is tossed upon the waves of pain and pleasure by the wavering breath of passions.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.