When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.

Indolence is the devil's cushion.

Pride is a vice, which pride itself inclines every man to find in others, and to overlook in himself

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

To understand the works of celebrated authors, to comprehend their systems, and retain their reasonings, is a task more than equal to common intellects; and he is by no means to be accounted useless or idle, who has stored his mind with acquired knowledge, and can detail it occasionally to others who have less leisure or weaker abilities.

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

The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.