The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring from to the highest ascent. There is usually some baseness before there is any elevation.

When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.

Fame often rests at first upon something accidental, and often, too, is swept away, or for a time removed; but neither genius nor glory, is conferred at once, nor do they glimmer and fall, like drops in a grotto, at a shout.

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.

O what a thing is age! Death without death's quiet.

The highest price we can pay for anything; is to ask it.