Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

Who does not more admire Cicero as an author than as a consul of Rome?

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

True religion and virtue give a cheerful and happy turn to the mind, admit of all true pleasures, and even procure for us the highest.

The woman that deliberates is lost.

The English delight in Silence more than any other European Nation, if the Remarks which are made on us by Foreigners are true.

It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this may be said for love, that if you strike it out of the soul, life would be insipid, and our being but half animated.