Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.

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

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

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.