The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?

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

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

But let not those worthy young women, who may think themselves destined to a single life, repine over-much at their lot; since, possibly, if they have had no lovers, or having had one, two, or three, have not found a husband, they have had rather a miss than a loss, as men go.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.