Unequal combinations are always disadvantageous to the weaker side.

Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

Prudery is ignorance.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.