A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Calamity is the test of integrity.