All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.

I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

Nature has left this tincture in the blood, That all men would be tyrants if they could.

An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.

All men would be tyrants if they could.

Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.

We are very fond of some families because they can be traced beyond the Conquest, whereas indeed the farther back, the worse, as being the nearer allied to a race of robbers and thieves.