there is no reasoning with imagination.

Home! With what different sensations different people pronounce and hear that word pronounced!

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.

Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

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