Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must be showing their Zeal for the Publick, let it not be against those who are perhaps of the same Family, or at least of the same Religion or Nation, but against those who are the open, professed, undoubted Enemies of their Faith, Liberty, and Country.

It is not the business of virtue to extirpate the affections of the mind, but to regulate them.

The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.

Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth.

This not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.

A man who has any relish for fine writing either discovers new beauties or receives stronger impressions from the masterly strokes of a great author every time he peruses him; besides that he naturally wears himself into the same manner of speaking and thinking.

Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.