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.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

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

It must be so,-Plato, thou reasonest well! Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction? 'T is the divinity that stirs within us; 'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

The head has the most beautiful appearance, as well as the highest station, in a human figure.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.