A French woman is a perfect architect in dress: she never, with Gothic ignorance, mixes the orders; she never tricks out a snobby Doric shape with Corinthian finery; or, to speak without metaphor, she conforms to general fashion only when it happens not to be repugnant to private beauty.

Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.

All his faults are such that one loves him still the better for them.

Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.

Every want that stimulates the breast becomes a source of pleasure when redressed.