... she, that will with kittens jest, Should bear a kitten's joke.

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful to meet with a proof of it in the effectual and actual grant of them.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.

No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.