It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

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.

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

Artificial intelligence will never be a match for natural stupidity.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.