He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors. It is strange to see the ravenous appetite with which some devourers of character and happiness fix upon the sides of the innocent and unfortunate.

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

The platform or the altar of love may be analyzed and explained; it is constructed of virtue, beauty, and affection. Such is the pyre, such is the offering; but the ethereal spark must come from heaven, that lights the sacrifice.

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.

That grief is the most durable which flows inward, and buries its streams with its fountain, in the depths of the heart.

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity.

Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.