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

All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise.

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

You may think it all very fine, Mr. Huntingdon, to amuse yourself with rousing my jealousy; but take care you don't rouse my hate instead. And when you have once extinguished my love, you will find it no easy matter to kindle it again.

Keep both heart and hand in your own possession, till you see good reason to part with them.

My cup of sweets is not unmingled: it is dashed with a bitterness that I cannot hide from myself, disguise it as I will.

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.