Whatever is clearly expressed is well wrote.

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

While conscience is our friend, all is at peace; however once it is offended, farewell to a tranquil mind.

... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.