A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
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.
My voice is still for war.
The most skillful flattery is to let a person talk on, and be a listener.
Whether dark presages of the night proceed from any latent power of the soul during her abstraction, or from any operation of subordinate spirits, has been a dispute.
A state of temperance, sobriety and justice without devotion is a cold, lifeless, insipid condition of virtue, and is rather to be styled philosophy than religion.