Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

But though it cannot be reasonable not to gain happiness for fear of losing it, yet it must be confessed, that in proportion to the pleasure of possession, will be for some time our sorrow for the loss.

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

What is good only because it pleases cannot be pronounced good till it has been found to please.

Change is not made without inconvenience.