Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.

We perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.