Love is a second life.

The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.

It is observed by Cicero, that men of the greatest and most shining parts are most actuated by ambition.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Peaceable times are the best to live in, though not so proper to furnish materials for a writer.