Admiration must be continued by that novelty which first produces it; and how much soever is given, there must always be reason to imagine that more remains.

Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exemplary piety.

Men have been wise in many different modes; but they have always laughed the same way.

No man is defeated without some resentment which will be continued with obstinacy while he believes himself in the right, and asserted with bitterness, if even to his own conscience he is detected in the wrong.

Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.