There is nothing so unready as readiness of wit.
Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.
Axioms are delightful in theory, but impossible in practice.
The subtle sauce of malice is often indulged in by maidens of uncertain age, over their tea.
Very nice couplet, although there are dull stretches.
There are some women who are flirts upon principle; they consider it their duty to make themselves as pleasing as possible to every one.
The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.
Wrong is wrong; no fallacy can hide it, no subterfuge cover it so shrewdly but that the All-Seeing One will discover and punish it.
To be ungrateful is to be unnatural. The head may be thus guilty, not the heart.
Reason is the historian, but passions are the actors.
Mutability is written upon all things.
