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

The silver ore of pure charity is an expensive article in the catalogue of a man's good qualities.

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.

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

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

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

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me