Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

One may know a man that never conversed in the world, by his excess of good-breeding.

In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

Is it not wonderful, that the love of the parent should be so violent while it lasts and that it should last no longer than is necessary for the preservation of the young?