Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.

A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

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.

I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.

Do you believe your heart to be, indeed, so hardened, that you can look without emotion on the suffering, to which you would condemn me?

I wish that all those, who on this night are not merry enough to speak before they think, may ever after be grave enough to think before they speak!