Does the devil possess you? You're leaping over the hedge before you come at the stile.

Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

there are many hours and minutes between now and tomorrowand in any one of them-even in a minute,the house falls

For let us women be never so ill-favored, I imagine that we are always delighted to hear ourselves called handsome.

Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.

They must take me for a fool, or even worse, a lunatic. And no wonder ,for I am so intensely conscious of my misfortune and my misery is so overwhelming that I am powerless to resist it and am being turned into stone, devoid of all knowledge or feeling.

The beauty of some women has days and seasons, depending upon accidents which diminish or increase it; nay, the very passions of the mind naturally improve or impair it, and very often utterly destroy it.