If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

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

The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.

One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.