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?

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

He who is extravagant will quickly become poor; and poverty will enforce dependence, and invite corruption.

All severity that does not tend to increase good, or prevent evil, is idle.

Politeness is one of those advantages which we never estimate rightly but by the inconvenience of its loss.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Books without the knowledge of life are useless.