Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.
I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.
That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.
There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.