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.

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

A man may think an untruth as well as speak one.

An oyster may be crossed in love.

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.