Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!

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

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

Good men must be affectionate men.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.