You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Absence, like death, sets a seal on the image of those we love: we cannot realize the intervening changes which time may have effected.

But winter lingering chills the lap of May.

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.

Ridicule has even been the most powerful enemy of enthusiasm, and properly the only antagonist that can be opposed to it with success.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.