Society is the stage on which manners are shown; novels are the literature. Novels are the journal or record of manners; and the new importance of these books derives from the fact, that the novelist begins to penetrate the surface, and treat this part of life more worthily.

Marriage (in what is called the spiritual world) is impossible, because of the inequality between every subject and every object.

Fear is a great instructor.

It is said that when manners are licentious, a revolution is always near: the virtue of woman being the main girth and bandage ofsociety; because a man will not lay up an estate for children any longer than whilst he believes them to be his own.

Pines a thousand years old. Every year they must go farther for them: they recede, like beavers and Indians, before the white man.

A forte always makes a foible.

Give all to love; Obey thy heart.