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

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.

All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

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.

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.