If it is abuse, - why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned goodnatured friend or another!

The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.

Be just before you are generous.

When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

For in religion as in friendship, they who profess most are ever the least sincere.

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.