It is usual for a Man who loves Country Sports to preserve the Game in his own Grounds, and divert himself upon those that belongto his Neighbour.

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

If there's a power above us, (And that there is all nature cries aloud Through all her works,) he must delight in virtue.

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms.

It is odd to consider the connection between despotism and barbarity, and how the making one person more than man makes the rest less.