Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.