Easy writing's curst hard reading.
If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
Be just before you are generous.
O Lord, Sir - when a heroine goes mad she always goes into white satin.
Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.