Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.