The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and each labors first to impose upon himself and then to propagate the imposture.

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?

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Change is not made without inconvenience.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting.

Idleness is often covered by turbulence and hurry. He that neglects his known duty and real employment naturally endeavours to crowd his mind with something that may bar out the remembrance of his own folly, and does any thing but what he ought to do with eager diligence, that he may keep himself in his own favour.