Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

Great abilities, when employed as God directs, do but make the owners of them greater and more painful servants to their neighbors.

The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter and a scarcity of words; for whosoever is a master of language, and hath a mind full of ideas, will be apt, in speaking, to hesitate upon the choice of both.

I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence.

Nothing more unqualified the man to act with prudence than a misfortune that is attended with shame and guilt.

Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.