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

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

It must be so, Plato, thou reason'st well!

A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.