To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

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.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.