The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.