Business before pleasure.

To enjoy yourself is the easy method to give enjoyment to others.

Affection exaggerates its own offenses.

Suicide and antipathy to fires in a bedroom seem to be among the national characteristics. Perhaps the same moral cause may originate both.

In sad truth, half our forebodings of our neighbors are but our own wishes, which we are ashamed to utter in any other form.

A woman's fame is the tomb of her happiness.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.