Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
Guilt is ever at a loss, and confusion waits upon it; when innocence and bold truth are always ready for expression.
One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.
These articles subscribed, if I continue to endure you a little longer, I may by degrees dwindle into wife.
How hard a thing 'twould be to please you all.
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing.