Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.

I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.

No man tells his opinion so freely as when he imagines it received with implicit veneration.

The present is never a happy state to any human being.

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.