If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

To you I am neither man nor woman. I come before you as an author only. It is the sole standard by which you have a right to judge me--the sole ground on which I accept your judgment.

I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you

To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.

Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.