Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point

I hope some future day will bring me the happiness of seeing my family again collected under our own roof, happy in ourselves and blessed in each other.

Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

The heart is long, very long in receiving the convictions that is forced upon it by reason... affection still lingers in the Bosom, even after esteem has taken its flight.

O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

What is meat for one is not for another--no accounting for fancy.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.