He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.

By forbearing to do what may innocently be done, we may add hourly new vigor to resolution.

Pain and disease awaken us to convictions which are necessary to our moral condition.

Fine clothes are good only as they supply the want of other means of procuring respect.

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

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.

That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.