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

There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.

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.

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!

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

Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.