Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.

The difference there is betwixt honor and honesty seems to be chiefly the motive; the mere honest man does that from duty which the man of honor does for the sake of character.

So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

Second thoughts oftentimes are the very worst of all thoughts.

Thanks, oftenest obtrusive.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.

The making presents to a lady one addresses is like throwing armor into an enemy's camp, with a resolution to recover it.