Good taste is his religion, his morality, his standard, and his test.

Memory has many conveniences, and, among others, that of foreseeing things as they have afterwards happened.

ingratitude is the necessary consequence of receiving favors of which we are ashamed.

It is said that ridicule is the test of truth; but it is never applied except when we wish to deceive ourselves - when if we cannot exclude the light, we would fain draw the curtain before it. The sneer springs out of the wish to deny; and wretched must that state of mind be, that wishes to take refuge in doubt.

We need to suffer, that we may learn to pity.

I do not think that life has a suspense more sickening than that of expecting a letter which does not come.

Delicious tears! The heart's own dew.