. . . men seldom risk their lives where an escape is without hope of recompense.

Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

Indeed, the freedom with which Dr Johnson condemns whatever he disapproves is astonishing.

In the bosom of her respectable family resided Camilla.

I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

For my part, I confess I seldom listen to the players: one has so much to do, in looking about and finding out one's acquaintance, that, really, one has no time to mind the stage. One merely comes to meet one's friends, and show that one's alive.