Complaisance renders a superior amiable, an equal agreeable, and an inferior acceptable.

The first of all virtues is innocence; the next is modesty. If we banish modesty out of the world, she carries away with her half the virtue that is in it.

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Wit is the fetching of congruity out of incongruity.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend.