It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in any art or science, which have not been touched upon by others. We have little else left us but to represent the common sense of mankind in more strong, more beautiful, or more uncommon lights.

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

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

When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know, what dire effects from civil discord flow.