It is a certain sign of an ill heart to be inclined to defamation. They who are harmless and innocent can have no gratification that way; but it ever arises from a neglect of what is laudable in a man's self.

Though very troublesome to others, anger is most so to him that has it.

A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

Pleasure, when it is a man's chief purpose, disappoints itself; and the constant application to it palls the faculty of enjoying it.

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

A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.