There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

It is always to be understood that a lady takes all you detract from the rest of her sex to be a gift to her.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

The most exquisite words and finest strokes of an author are those which very often appear the most doubtful and exceptionable to a man who wants a relish for polite learning; and they are those which a sour undistinguishing critic generally attacks with the greatest violence.

What can be nobler than the idea it gives us of the Supreme Being?