There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon herself; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few treacherous supports--the feigned compassion of one, the flattery of a second, the civilities of a third, the friendship of a fourth--they all deceive, and bring the mind back to retirement, reflection, and books.

A coward never forgives.

So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.

When, to gratify a private appetite, it is once resolved upon that an ignorant and helpless creature shall be sacrificed, it is an easy matter to pick up sticks enough from any thicket where it has strayed, to make a fire to offer it up with.

Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.

Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.