Life cannot be seen by an unmoved spectator.

At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.

Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that endears life, but their very selves, her imagination was occupied with melancholy earnestness to trace the mazes of misery, through which so many wretches must have passed to this gloomy receptacle of disjointed souls, to the grand source of human corruption.

Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.

It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.