At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of works is more honorably distinguished for fine observation, by grace, by delicate wit, by pure moral feeling.

Our estimate of a character always depends much on the manner in which that character affects our own interests and passions.

The desire of posthumous fame and the dread of posthumous reproach and execration are feelings from the influence of which scarcely any man is perfectly free, and which in many men are powerful and constant motives of action.

The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.

Everybody's business is nobody's business.

That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.