How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!

Business before pleasure.

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.

Experience teaches, it is true; but she never teaches in time.

My heart is its own grave!

Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

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