Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.