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.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

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

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

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