O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of Lochinvar.
All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
Now, it is well known, that a man may with more impunity be guilty of an actual breach either of real good breeding or of good morals, than appear ignorant of the most minute point of fashionable etiquette.
We are like the herb which flourisheth most when it is most trampled on.
And better had they ne'er been born, Who read to doubt, or read to scorn.