Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.

The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.

There is no divining-rod whose dip shall tell us at twenty what we shall most relish at thirty.

Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.

The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled.