A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

She who is more ashamed of dishonesty than of poverty will not be easily overcome.

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.