Neatness is a crowning grace of womanhood.

Let us be well assured of the Matter of Fact, before we trouble our selves with enquiring into the Cause. It is true, that this Method is too slow for the greatest part of Mankind, who run naturally to the Cause, and pass over the Truth of the Matter of Fact.

Modesty in women has two special advantages,--it enhances beauty and veils uncomeliness.

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual.

A philosopher will not believe what he sees because he is too busy speculating about what he does not see.

If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.

People almost always do great things without knowing how to do them, and are quite surprised to have done them.