All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

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.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

Must one rash word, the infirmity of age, throw down the merit of my better years?

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

There is not a more melancholy object than a man who has his head turned with religious enthusiasm.