Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business.

I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant.

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

Let us have the luxury of silence.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.