There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.

That virtue which requires to be ever guarded is scarce worth the sentinel.

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.

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

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.

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.