I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness.

Evil to some is always good to others

Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction.

I have often observed that resignation is never so perfect as when the blessing denied begins to lose somewhat of its value in our eyes.

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.

To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.