O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.