Some virtuous women are too liberal in their insults to a frail sister; but virtue can support itself without borrowing any assistance from the vices of other women.
We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Dignity and love were never yet boon companions.
Setting down in writing, is a lasting memory.
It is much easier to make good men wise, than to make bad men good.
There is not in the universe a more ridiculous, nor a more contemptible animal, than a proud clergyman.