How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

there is no reasoning with imagination.

When one illusion vanishes, another shall appear, and, still leading me forward towards an horizon that retreats as I advance, the happy prospect of futurity shall vanish only with my existence.

Hope can produce the finest and most permanent springs of action.