Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact.

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.

Nature's hasty conscience.

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.

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