But human nature is alike in all places, and, if circumstances should arise in the ball-room, which touch as it were the strings of the passions, they will as naturally throw out their tone there as in other places.

Why should envy, jealousy, pride, malice, anger, or revenge, shut themselves out exclusively from these resorts, as if these were more than ordinarily sacred, or more than ordinary repositories of human worth.
In examining the interior of a ball-room it must be confessed, that we shall certainly find circumstances occasionally arising, that give birth to feelings neither of a pleasant nor of a moral nature.

It is not unusual, for instance, to discover among the females one that excels in the beauty of her person, and another that excels in the elegance of her dress.

The eyes of all are more than proportionally turned upon these for the whole night.

This little circumstance soon generates a variety of improper passions.