We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!