Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.

A coward never forgives.

The best hearts are ever the bravest.

Great is the power of Eloquence; but never is it so great as when it pleads along with nature, and the culprit is a child strayed from his duty, and returned to it again with tears.

We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances we put on, are in truth but so many different attempts to gratify the same governing appetite.

'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.