To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

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

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.