What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

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.

But let not those worthy young women, who may think themselves destined to a single life, repine over-much at their lot; since, possibly, if they have had no lovers, or having had one, two, or three, have not found a husband, they have had rather a miss than a loss, as men go.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

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

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.