In friendship, as well as in love, the mind is often the dupe of the heart.

A certain degree of ceremony is a necessary outwork of manners, as well as of religion; it keeps the forward and petulant at a proper distance, and is a very small restraint to the sensible and to the well-bred part of the world.

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Women, then, are only children of a larger growth

When griefs are genuine, I find, there is nothing more vacuous, more burdensome, or even more impertinent, than letters of consolation.

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

I would have all intoleration intolerated in its turn.