Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings but makes her rejoice in them.

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.