Romance is the poetry of literature.
Elegance is exquisite polish.
It were no virtue to bear calamities if we did not feel them.
The heart of a good man is the sanctuary of God in this world.
For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit is one of the qualities of virtue.
Want of perseverance is the great fault of women in everything--morals, attention to health, friendship, and so on. It cannot be too often repeated that women never reach the end of anything through want of perseverance.