It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.

You cannot expect stone to be as pliable as clay.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in conversation.

There is always a but in this imperfect world.

You might as well sell yourself to slavery at once, as marry man you dislike.

The brightest attractions to the lover too often prove the husband's greatest torments