The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

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

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

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.