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

Few save the poor feel for the poor.

Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.

Whatever people in general do not understand, they are al ways prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.

We are ourselves our happiness.

One would think that an unsuccessful volume was like a degree in the school of reviewing. One unread work makes the judge bitter enough; but a second failure, and he is quite desperate in his damnation. I do believe one half of the injustice - the severity of 'the ungentle craft' originates in its own want of success: they cannot forgive the popularity which has passed them over.

Nothing is so fortunate for mankind as its diversity of opinion.