Wretched un-idea'd girls.

He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.

Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute that we can at any tine exact with confidence; but the celebration of those which we only feign, or desire without any vigorous endeavours to attain them, is received as a confession of sovereignty over regions never conquered, as a favourable decision of disputable claims, and is more welcome as more gratuitous.

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom.

The cure for the greatest part of human miseries is not radical, but palliative.

Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .

The gloomy and the resentful are always found among those who have nothing to do or who do nothing.