There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.

Heaven gives its favourites-early death.

I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world -not much remembered when the ball is over.

Dreading that climax of all human ills the inflammation of his weekly bills.

But I had not quite fixed whether to make him [Don Juan] end in Hell-or in an unhappy marriage,-not knowing which would be the severest.

When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; And when Rome falls--the World.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.