If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.