By my soul, I can neither eat, drink, nor sleep; nor, what's still worse, love any woman in the world but her.

Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

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

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.