For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

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.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.