Spring is the season of hope, and autumn is that of memory.

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

The difference between weakness and wickedness is much less than people suppose; and the consequences are nearly always the same.

Thoughts come maimed and plucked of plumage from the lips, which, from the pea, in the silence of your own leisure and study, would be born with far more beauty.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

A beautiful woman without fixed principles may be likened to those fair but rootless flowers which float in streams, driven by every breeze.

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.