When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs..

But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a useful member of society, yet he….

The flatterer easily insinuates himself into the closet, while honest merit stands shivering in the hall or antechamber..

How different is the ready hand, tearful eye, and soothing voice, from the ostentatious appearance which is called pity..

The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering..

Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle..

The platform or the altar of love may be analyzed and explained; it is constructed of virtue, beauty, and affection. Such is the pyre, such is the of….

Any base heart can devise means of vileness, and affix the ugly shapings of its own fancy to the actions of those around him; but it requires loftine….

Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it ….

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us..

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them..

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and….

Where there is any good disposition, confidence begets faithfulness; but distrust, if it do not produce treachery; never fails to destroy every incli….

Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things..

In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother..

Self-love leads men of narrow minds to measure all mankind by their own capacity..

To be truly and really independent is to support ourselves by our own exertions..

It has been wisely said, "that well may thy guardian angel suffer thee to lose thy locks, when thou darest wilfully to lay thy head in the lap of tem….

If cowardice were not so completely a coward as to be unable to look steadily upon the effects of courage, he would find that there is no refuge so s….

The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes ….

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who injured us; and it is hardly possible for one man to be more unlike another than h….