A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

Life is not long enough for a coquette to play all her tricks in.

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.