The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.

If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.

Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.

There is a skeleton in every house.

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