Circumstances form the character; but, like petrifying matters, they harden while they form.

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

We fancy we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

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

Children are what the mothers are.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

It is as wise to moderate our belief as our desires.