Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.
I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.