To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.

A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

Those who are formed to win general admiration are seldom calculated to bestow individual happiness.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.

Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.