If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
T is the Divinity that stirs within us.
A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections
I have often reflected within myself on this unaccountable humor in womankind of being smitten with everything that is showy and superficial, and on the numberless evils that befall the sex from this light fantastical disposition.