To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now

The best of women are hypocrites.

One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.