Steal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,-disfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.

Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

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

Women govern us; let us render them perfect: the more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

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

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

It is not my interest to pay the principal, nor my principle to pay the interest.