The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?

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

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

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.

Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.