It is curious how inseparable eating and kindness are with some people.

To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage.

If there be any one habit which more than another is the dry rot of all that is high and generous in youth, it is the habit of ridicule.

who has not experienced, at some time or other, that words had all the relief of tears?

Farewell's a bitter word to say.

to the many, witticisms not only require to be explained, like riddles, but are also like new shoes, which people require to wear many times before they get accustomed to them.

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.