Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.

There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be well received in female assemblies, must qualify himself by a total rejection of all that is serious, rational, or important; must consider argument or criticism as perpetually interdicted; and devote all his attention to trifles, and all his eloquence to compliment.

Repentance, however difficult to be practiced, is, if it be explained without superstition, easily understood. Repentance is the relinquishment of any practice from the conviction that it has offended God.

Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.