Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

Nature's hasty conscience.

there is no reasoning with imagination.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.

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

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.