We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity.

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

Fortune is ever seen accompanying industry.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.