Unless a woman has an amorous heart, she is a dull companion.

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Most men are unwilling to be taught.

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.