Sweet are the slumbers of the virtuous man.

The greatest sweetener of human life is friendship.

I have often reflected within myself on this unaccountable humor in womankind of being smitten with everything that is showy and superficial, and on the numberless evils that befall the sex from this light fantastical disposition.

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out of a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which, a good thing may pass over unobserved, or lost among commissions of bankrupt.

The pride of woman, natural to her, never sleeps until modesty is gone.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

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.