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

There is no accounting for tastes.

But no matter for that, you can be tolerably happy, perhaps, notwithstanding; but as for guessing how happy I am, or knowing anything about the matter,--- O! its quite beyond what you can understand.

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.

Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.

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

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