A modest man is steady, an humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

Children, I grant, should be innocent; but when the epithet is applied to men, or women, it is but a civil term for weakness.

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.

In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

Love, from its very nature, must be transitory.

The appetites will rule if the mind is vacant.