Be warm, be pure, be amorous, but be chaste.
In itself a thought, a slumbering thought is capable of years; and curdles a long life into one hour.
A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.
One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer.
The lapse of ages changes all things - time, language, the earth, the bounds of the sea, the stars of the sky, and every thing about, around, and underneath man, except man himself.
Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe.