When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

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 world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil but from the temper of the sufferer.

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

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.