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

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

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!