I loved him for himself alone.
Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
If the thought is slow to come, a glass of good wine encourages it; and when it does come, a glass of good wine rewards it.
There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.