Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.
A family ... is a little kingdom, torn with factions and exposed to revolutions.
Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.
Virtue is too often merely local.
High people, sir, are the best; take a hundred ladies of quality, you'll find them better wives, better mothers, more willing to sacrifice their own pleasures to their children, than a hundred other woman.
Friendship is seldom lasting but between equals, or where the superiority on one side is reduced by some equivalent advantage on the other.