Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

As long as one lives he will have need of repentance.

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.