There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.

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

Ignorance of true pleasure more frequently than temptation to that which is false, leads to vice.

The world ridicules a passion which it seldom feels; its scenes, and its interests, distract the mind, deprave the taste, corrupt the heart, and love cannot exist in a heart that has lost the meek dignity of innocence.

It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome one!

I ought not to doubt the steadiness of your affection. Yet 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, and thus it is, that i always feel revived, as by a new convinction, when your words tell me I am dear to you; and wanting these, I relapse into doubt and often into despondency.

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