Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

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.

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

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!