A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.