Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

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

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.