The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures

From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.

I should as soon think of contradicting a bishop

I have adopted the Roman sentiment, that it is more honorable to save a citizen than to kill an enemy.

Falsehoods of convenience or vanity, falsehoods from which no evil immediately visible ensues, except the general degradation of human testimony, are very lightly uttered, and once uttered are sullenly supported.

Golf is a game in which you claim the privileges of age, and retain the playthings of childhood.