alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!

Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.

When the sun shines on you, you see your friends. It requires sunshine to be seen by them to advantage!

A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.

A man should never boast of his courage, nor a woman of her virtue, lest their doing so should be the cause of calling their possession of them into question.