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.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

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.

The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.

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