Good sense and good nature are never separated; and good nature is the product of right reason.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would find their sorrows much more; if future fortunes were known before!

Restless at home, and ever prone to range.

And plenty makes us poor.

Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.

New vows to plight, and plighted vows to break.

The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven.