He in a few minutes ravished this fair creature, or at least would have ravished her, if she had not, by a timely compliance, prevented him.

The devil take me, if I think anything but love to be the object of love.

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.

A man may go to heaven with half the pains it cost him to purchase hell.

Prudence is a duty which we owe ourselves, and if we will be so much our own enemies as to neglect it, we are not to wonder if the world is deficient in discharging their duty to us; for when a man lays the foundation of his own ruin, others too often are apt to build upon it.

With the latitude of unbounded scurrility, it is easy enough to attain the character of a wit, especially when it is considered how wonderfully pleasant it is to the generality of the public to see the folly of their acquaintance exposed by a third person.