How much it is to be regretted, that the British ladies should ever sit down contented to polish, when they are able to reform; to entertain, when they might instruct; and to dazzle for an hour, when they are candidates for eternity!

There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none at all.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Who are those ever multiplying authors that with unparalleled fecundity are overstocking the world with their quick succeeding progeny? They are novel-writers.

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.