He only who gave life has a power over it.

Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

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?

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.