Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.
Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.
An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.
you've always been living on prospects; for my part, I'd rather have a mole-hill in possession than a mountain in prospect.