Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Next to love, Sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.