False fancy brings real misery.

To be man's tender mate was woman born, and in obeying nature she best serves the purposes of heaven.

Virtue is no empty echo.

Keep true to the dreams of your youth.

Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.

Misery travels free through the whole world!

The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.