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Ah! the spendthrift, love: it gives all and everything with the first sigh! - [Love] Familiarity is the most destructive of all iconoclasts. - [Familiarity] How are we justly to determine in a world where there are no innocent ones to judge the guilty? - [Judgment] In our lonely hours we awake those sleeping images with which our memories are stored, and vitalize them again. - [Retrospection] It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all. - [Books] Sensibility cannot be acquired; people are born thus, or they have it not. - [Sensibility] Ugliness, after virtue, is the best guardian of a young woman. - [Ugliness]
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