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.

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

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.

But St. Aubert had too much good sense to prefer a charm to a virtue.

Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.

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?