A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

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

Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.