Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.
Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king.
A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants.
The nicest constitutions of government are often like the finest pieces of clock-work, which, depending on so many motions, are therefore more subject to be out of order.
A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.