Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.

Jealousy is sustained as often by pride as by affection.

It is with nations as with individuals, those who know the least of others think the highest of themselves; for the whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other.

It may be observed of good writing, as of good blood, that it is much easier to say what it is composed of than to compose it.

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.

Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.