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.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.