Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.

Be shocking, be daring, be bold, be passionate.

In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother.

The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld.

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber.

we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.

We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract of sympathy, mutual forbearance, and respect!