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

When one can hear people moving, one does not so much mind, about one's fears.

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.

There is no accounting for tastes.

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

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

And since, in our passage through this world, painful circumstances occur more frequently than pleasing ones, and since our sense of evil is, I fear, more acute than our sense of good, we become the victims of our feelings, unless we can in some degree command them.