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

I tasted too what was called the sweet of revenge - but it was transient, it expired even with the object, that provoked it.

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!

Vanity often produces unreasonable alarm.

Virtue and taste are nearly the same, for virtue is little more than active taste, and the most delicate affections of each combine in real love.

The passions are the seeds of vices as well as of virtues, from which either may spring, accordingly as they are nurtured. Unhappy they who have never been taught the art to govern them!

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