What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.

What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all.

How despicable is that humanity, which can be contented to pity, where it might assuage!

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

If the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it - the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.

Sentiment is a disgrace, instead of an ornament, unless it lead us to good actions.

When justice happens to oppose prejudice, we are apt to believe it virtuous to disobey her.