A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

That courage which arises from the sense of our duty, and from the fear of offending Him that made us, acts always in a uniform manner, and according to the dictates of right reason.

It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal.

Nature has laid out all her art in beautifying the face; she has touched it with vermilion, planted in it a double row of ivory, made it the seat of smiles and blushes, lighted it up and enlivened it with the brightness of the eyes, hung it on each side with curious organs of sense, given it airs and graces that cannot be described, and surrounded it with such a flowing shade of hair as sets all its beauties in the most agreeable light.

Good-breeding shows itself most where to an ordinary eye it appears the least.

Contentment produces, in some measure, all those effects which the alchemist usually ascribes to what he calls the philosopher's stone; and if it does not bring riches, it does the same thing by banishing the desire for them.