Women are from their very infancy debarred those Advantages with the want of which they are afterwards reproached.

For certainly there cannot be a higher pleasure than to think that we love and are beloved by the most amiable and best Being.

. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.

Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom.

That Man indeed can never be good at heart, who is full of himself and his own Endowments.

We must Think what we Say, and Mean what we Profess.

friendship is a virtue which comprehends all the rest; none being fit for this, who is not adorned with every other virtue.