All men would be tyrants if they could.
In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.
What are the sorrows of other men to us, and what their joy?
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.
As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
Tis very strange men should be so fond of being wickeder than they are.