Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

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

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

The unhappy never want enemies.

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.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.