Words are daughters of earth but ideas are sons of heaven.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence.

If he does really think that there is no distinction between virtue and vice, why, sir, when he leaves our houses let us count our spoons.

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.