Virtue can only flourish among equals.

A war, or any wild-goose chase, is, as the vulgar use the phrase, a lucky turn-up of patronage for the minister, whose chief merit is the art of keeping himself in place.

True happiness must arise from well-regulated affections, and an affection includes a duty.

The highest branch of solitary amusement is reading; but even in the choice of books the fancy is first employed; for in reading, the heart is touched, till its feelings are examined by the understanding, and the ripening of reason regulate the imagination. This is the work of years, and the most important of all employments.

In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.

Some women govern their husbands without degrading themselves, because intellect will always govern.

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.