All wonder is the effect of novelty on ignorance.

To proportion the eagerness of contest to its importance seems too hard a task for human wisdom. The pride of wit has kept ages busy in the discussion of useless questions, and the pride of power has destroyed armies, to gain or to keep unprofitable possessions.

In the motive lies the good or ill.

Those authors who would find many readers, must endeavour to please while they instruct.

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

Marriage is the strictest tie of perpetual friendship, and there can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity; and he must expect to be wretched, who pays to beauty, riches, or politeness that regard which only virtue and piety can claim.