He only who gave life has a power over it.
Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.
A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.
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.
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.