A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

We sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favors.

As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.

The Europeans are themselves blind who describe fortune without sight. No first-rate beauty ever had finer eyes, or saw more clearly. They who have no other trade but seeking their fortune need never hope to find her; coquette-like, she flies from her close pursuers, and at last fixes on the plodding mechanic who stays at home and minds his business.