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?

Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.

The pictures placed for ornament and use, The twelve good rules, the royal game of goose.

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

The work of eradicating crimes is not by making punishment familiar, but formidable.

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!