The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

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.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

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

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.