Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

In the founders of great families, titles or attributes of honor are generally correspondent with the virtues of the person to whom they are applied; but in their descendants they are too often the marks rather of grandeur than of merit. The stamp and denomination still continue, but the intrinsic value is frequently lost.

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies.

In rising sighs and falling tears.

Marriage enlarges the Scene of our Happiness and Miseries.

Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.