Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

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

Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults of our pity, but affectation appears to be the only true source of the ridiculous.

LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites.

Guilt has very quick ears to an accusation.

It is admirably remarked, by a most excellent writer, that zeal can no more hurry a man to act in direct opposition to itself than a rapid stream can carry a boat against its own current.

The life of a coquette is one constant lie; and the only rule by which you can form any correct judgment of them is that they are never what they seem.