marriage is usually considered the grave, and not the cradle of love.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.