Habit is a second nature, and what was at first pleasure, is next necessity.

Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.

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

Anticipation is a bad sleeping draught.

in came ... a baby, eloquent as infancy usually is, and like most youthful orators, more easily heard than understood.

It is amazing how much a thought expands and refines by being put into speech: I should think it could hardly know itself.

Confidence is its own security.