My valour is certainly going! - it is sneaking off! - I feel it oozing out as it were at the palms of my hands!

Humanity always becomes a conqueror.

If Parliament were to consider the sporting with reputation of as much importance as sporting on manors, and pass an act for the preservation of fame as well as game, there are many who would thank them for the bill.

She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

Be just before you are generous.

Modesty is a quality in a lover more praised by the women than liked.

Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put "The Innocent Adultery" into "The Whole Duty of Man"; thrust "Lord Aimworth" under the sofa! cram "Ovid" behind the bolster; there -put "The Man of Feeling" into your pocket. Now for them.