A jealous man is very quick in his application: he knows how to find a double edge in an invective, and to draw a satire on himself out of a panegyrick on another.

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

In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

There is nothing which one regards so much with an eye of mirth and pity as innocence when it has in it a dash of folly.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

A virtuous mind in a fair body is indeed a fine picture in a good light, and therefore it is no wonder that it makes the beautiful sex all over charms.