What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.

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

True benevolence or compassion, extends itself through the whole of existence and sympathizes with the distress of every creature capable of sensation.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

The peacock in all his pride does not display half the colors that appear in the garments of a British lady when she is dressed.

Even the greatest actions of a celebrated person labor under this disadvantage, that however surprising and extraordinary they may be, they are no more than what are expected from him.