There is not a more pleasante exercise of the mind than gratitude.

The Fashionable World is grown free and easie; our Manners sit more loose upon us: Nothing is so modish as an agreeable Negligence. In a word, Good Breeding shows it self most, where to an ordinary Eye it appears the least.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

Pedantry in learning is like hypocrisy inn religion--a form of knowledge without the power of it.

What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

My voice is still for war. Gods! can a Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?