Title and ancestry render a good man more illustrious, but an ill one more contemptible.
Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.
Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.
The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration.
Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.
Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body. As by the one, health is preserved, strengthened, and invigorated: by the other, virtue (which is the health of the mind) is kept alive, cherished, and confirmed.