How success changes the opinion of men!

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

Some people talk of morality, and some of religion, but give me a little snug property.

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.

How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?