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

What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

All is vanity, look you; and so the preacher is vanity too.