What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

Self-love is a busy prompter.

Without good humour, learning and bravery can only confer that superiority which swells the heart of the lion in the desert, where he roars without reply, and ravages without resistance. Without good humour virtue may awe by its dignity and amaze by its brightness, but must always be viewed at a distance, and will scarcely gain a friend or attract an imitator.

Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary.

Many falsehoods are passing into uncontradicted history.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.