Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

Now there cannot be first principles for men, unless the Divinity has revealed them; all the rest--beginning, middle, and end--isnothing but dreams and smoke.

Beauty is the true prerogative of women, and so peculiarly their own, that our sex, though naturally requiring another sort of feature, is never in its lustre but when puerile and beardless, confused and mixed with theirs.

Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.

We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.

Whom conscience, ne'er asleep, Wounds with incessant strokes, not loud, but deep.

Those that will combat use and custom by the strict rules of grammar do but jest