The life of a scholar seldom abounds with adventure.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

And as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledg'd offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way.

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.

The genteel thing is the genteel thing any time, if as be that a gentleman bees in a concatenation accordingly.

Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.