It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.

If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again.

Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.

Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.

To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.