Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

The true effect of genuine politeness seems to be rather ease than pleasure.

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

Such is the common process of marriage. A youth and maiden exchange meeting by chance, or brought together by artifice, exchange glances, reciprocate civilities, go home, and dream of one another. Having little to divert attention, or diversify thought, they find themselves uneasy when they are apart, and therefore conclude that they shall be happy together. They marry, and discover what nothing but voluntary blindness had before concealed; they wear out life in altercations, and charge nature with cruelty.

It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

Never mind the use--do it!