If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

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

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own.

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.