Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?