It Is A Species Of Coquetry To

Before We Passionately Desire A Thing, We Should Examine The Happiness Of Its Possessor.

Treachery Is More Often The Effect Of Weakness Than Of A Formed Design.

Novelty Is To Love Like Bloom To Fruit; It Gives A Luster Which Is Easily Effaced, But Never Returns.

Men May Boast Of Their Great Actions; But They Are More Often The Effects Of Chance Than Of Design.

Love Can No More Continue Without A Constant Motion Than Fire Can; And When Once You Take Hope And Fear Away, You Take From It Its Very Life And Being.