Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.

A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.

What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.