she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly.

His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle.

Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left.

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more

people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them