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

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.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

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.

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