We are all very ready to believe what we like.

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.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

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

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.