Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

If women would make themselves appear as elegant to an Husband, as they were desirous to appear to him while a Lover, the Rake, which all women love, would last longer in the Husband than it generally does.

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.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

He only who gave life has a power over it.

Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.