The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.

Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.

The labor of thinking was so great to me, that having once come to a conclusion upon any subject, I would rather persist in it, right or wrong, than be at the trouble of going over the process again to revise and rectify my judgment.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

there is no reasoning with imagination.