How many times do you get to lie before you are a liar?
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?
To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!
A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.
We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.
We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.
Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest.
Sometimes,' Sylvie said, 'one can mistake gratitude for love.
The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman.
The dog pranced delightedly around his feet as if he'd been gone to another planet instead of merely underneath a car.