Conscience, like a child, is soon lulled to sleep.

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.

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

It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.

The past is perpetual youth to the heart.

Truly, a little love-making is a very pleasant thing.

Nothing but love can answer to love; no affection, no kindness, no care, can supply its place: it is its own sweet want.