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

A man improves more by reading the story of a person eminent for prudence and virtue, than by the finest rules and precepts of morality.

Temperance gives nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.

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.

Allegories, when well chosen, are like so many tracks of light in a discourse, that make everything about them clear and beautiful.

Riches expose a man to pride and luxury, and a foolish elation of heart.

I always rejoice when I see a tribunal filled with a man of an upright and inflexible temper, who in the execution of his country's laws can overcome all private fear, resentment, solicitation, and even pity it self. Whatever passion enters into a sentence or decision, so far will there be in it a tincture of injustice. In short, justice discards party, friendship, kindred, and is therefore always represented as blind, that we may suppose her thoughts are wholly intent on the equity of a cause, without being diverted or prejudiced by objects foreign to it.