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

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!

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

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.