Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved.

Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

wit is often its own worst enemy.

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.

First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.

... an inaccurate use of words produces such a strange confusion in all reasoning, that in the heat of debate, the combatants, unable to distinguish their friends from their foes, fall promiscuously on both.