No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.
The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
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.