What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

In all Works of This, and of the Dramatic Kind, STORY, or AMUSEMENT, should be considered as little more than the Vehicle to the more necessary INSTRUCTION.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

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.

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

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.