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.

When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.

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

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?

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.