In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet.

Fables take off from the severity of instruction, and enforce it at the same time that they conceal it.

The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone.

I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.