I’ll promise to think twice before I take any important step you seriously disapprove of.

Is it that they think it a duty to be continually talking,' pursued she: 'and so never pause to think, but fill up with aimless trifles and vain repetitions when subjects of real interest fail to present themselves? - or do they really take a pleasure in such discourse?' 'Very likely they do,' said I; 'their shallow minds can hold no great ideas, and their light heads are carried away by trivialities that would not move a better-furnished skull; - and their only alternative to such discourse is to plunge over head and ears into the slough of scandal - which is their chief delight.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

How odd it is that we so often weep for each other's distresses, when we shed not a tear for our own!

Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.

Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.

If we can only speak to slander our betters, let us hold our tongues.