Moral severity in women is only a dress or paint which they use to set off their beauty.

Our merit gains us the esteem of the virtuous-our star that of the public.

It is easier for a man to be thought fit for an employment that he has not, than for one he stands already possessed of, and is exercising.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

Our good qualities expose us more to hatred and persecution than all the ill we do.

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly.