Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

Nay, Madam, when you are declaiming, declaim; and when you are calculating, calculate.

Among the numerous stratagems by which pride endeavors to recommend folly to regard, there is scarcely one that meets with less success than affectation, or a perpetual disguise of the real character by fictitious appearances.

Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.

The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.

They who most loudly clamour for liberty do not most liberally grant it.

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.