I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.

Why was this heart of mine formed with so much sensibility! Or why not my fortune adapted to its impulses! Tenderness without a capacity of relieving only makes the man who feels it more wretched than the object which sues for assistance.

People seek within a short span of life to satisfy a thousand desires, each of which is insatiable.

As for murmurs, mother, we grumble a little now and then, to be sure; but there's no love lost between us.

Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.