It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!

'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

Pray God, keep us simple.

The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.