If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

O, I have read his Heart in his wicked eyes many a time. The very devil is in them.

A patriot without religion in my estimation is as great a paradox as an honest Man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men?

Many of our disappointments and much of our unhappiness arise from our forming false notions of things and persons.