Sensibility is the power of woman.

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, mien, inventions and actions of others.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossi∣ble that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.