Laughter, while it lasts, slackens and unbraces the mind, weakens the faculties, and causes a kind of remissness and dissolution in all the powers of the soul.

Virgil has very finely touched upon the female passion for dress and shows, in the character of Camilla; who though she seems to have shaken off all the other weaknesses of her sex, is still described as a woman in this particular.

Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.

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.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.