Every period of life is obliged to borrow its happiness from time to come.

The happiness of building lasted but a little while, for though I love to spend, I hate to be cheated; and I soon found, that to build is to be robbed.

To be prejudiced is always to be weak; yet there are prejudices so near to laudable that they have been often praised and are always pardoned.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.