Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.

There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.