The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.

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

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

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

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.