There is perhaps no surer mark of folly, than to attempt to correct natural infirmities of those we love.

He that dies before sixty, of a cold or consumption, dies, in reality, by a violent death.

O innocence, how glorious and happy a portion art thou to the breast that possesses thee! thou fearest neither the eyes nor the tongues of men. Truth, the most powerful of all things, is thy strongest friend; and the brighter the light is in which thou art displayed, the more it discovers thy transcendent beauties.

To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place.

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate.