The Bashful Virgin's Sidelong Looks Of Love.

It Is Impossible To Combat Enthusiasm With Reason; For Though It Makes A Show Of Resistance, It Soon Eludes The Pressure, Refers You To Distinctions Not To Be Understood, And Feelings Which It Cannot Explain. A Man Who Would Endeavor To Fix An Enthusiast By Argument Might As Well Attempt To Spread Quicksilver With His Finger.

The True Use Of Speech Is Not So Much To Express Our Wants As To Conceal Them.

O Luxury! Thou Curst By Heaven's Decree!

Blame Where You Must, Be Candid Where You Can, And Be Each Critic The Good-natured Man.

Were I To Be Angry At Men Being Fools, I Could Here Find Ample Room For Declamation; But, Alas! I Have Been A Fool Myself; And Why Should I Be Angry With Them For Being Something So Natural To Every Child Of Humanity?