Yes, I had two strings to my bow; both golden ones, egad! and both cracked.
The blackest ink of fate are sure my lot, And when fate writ my name it made a blot.
For parents to restrain the inclinations of their children in marriage is an usurped power.
Handsome is that handsome does.
Thy modesty ’s a candle to thy merit.
When I mention religion I mean the Christian religion; and not only the Christian religion, but the Protestant religion; and not only the Protestant religion, but the Church of England.
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.
Never trust the man who has reason to suspect that you know he has injured you.
He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.
Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has done well, though along; if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.
What is commonly called love, namely the desire of satisfying a voracious appetite with a certain quantity of delicate white human flesh.
There’s one fool at least in every married couple.
Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to heaven.
There is an insolence which none but those who themselves deserve contempt can bestow, and those only who deserve no contempt can bear.
The dignity of history.
These are called the pious frauds of friendship.
When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.
There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.
The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.
Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.