Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

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

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

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.