'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate; The good die early, and the bad die late.

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.

Why then should women be denied the benefits of instruction? If knowledge and understanding had been useless additions to the sex, God almighty would never have given them capacities.

I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.

For sudden Joys, like Griefs, confound at first.

It put me upon reflecting how little repining there would be among mankind at any condition of life, if people would rather compare their condition with those that were worse, in order to be thankful, than be always comparing them with those which are better, to assist their murmurings and complaining.