I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.

We have all our playthings. Happy are they who are contented with those they can obtain; those hours are spent in the wisest manner that can easiest shade the ills of life, and are the least productive of ill consequences.

We should ask, not who is the most learned, but who is the best learned.

Nobody should trust their virtue with necessity, the force of which is never known till it is felt, and it is therefore one of the first duties to avoid the temptation of it.

Begin nothing without considering what the end may be.

The most romantic region of every country is that where the mountains unite themselves with the plains or lowlands.

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.