All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

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

The relief of enemies has a tendency to unite mankind in fraternal affection.

That distrust which intrudes so often on your mind is a mode of melancholy, which, if it be the business of a wise man to be happy, it is foolish to indulge; and if it be a duty to preserve our faculties entire for their proper use, it is criminal. Suspicion is very often an useless pain.

Nature never gives everything at once.

The end of writing is to instruct; the end of poetry is to instruct by pleasing.

The synonyme of usury is ruin.