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.

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

It is a very melancholy reflection that men are usually so weak that it is absolutely necessary for them to know sorrow and pain to be in their right senses.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.