A lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack, and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.

Compassion does not only refine and civilize human nature, but has something in it more pleasing and agreeable, than what can be met with in such an indolent happiness, such an indifference to mankind, as that in which the stoics placed their wisdom. As love is the most delightful passion, pity is nothing else but love softened by a degree of sorrow: In short, it is a kind of pleasing anguish, anguish as well as generous sympathy, that knits mankind together, and blends them in the same common lot.

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

You see, among men who are honored with the common appellation ogentleman, many contradictions to that character.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

Mutual good humor is a dress we ought to appear in wherever we meet, and we should make no mention of what concerns ourselves, without it be of matters wherein our friends ought to rejoice.

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker.