Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Tired of myself longing for what I have not

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

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.