If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

We love being in love, that's the truth on't.

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.