Politeness, however, acts the lady's maid to our thoughts; and they are washed, dressed, curled, rouged, and perfumed, before they are presented to the public.

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.

doubts, like facts, are stubborn things.

A preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical.

We are ourselves our happiness.