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.

Mystery has great charms for womanhood.

Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

Fortune may raise up or abuse the ordinary mortal, but the sage and the soldier should have minds beyond her control.

War is the only game in which both sides lose.

For love is heaven and heaven is love.

Honour is a homicide and a bloodspiller, that gangs about making frays in the street; but Credit is a decent honest man, that sits at hame and makes the pat play.