In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

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

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.