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?

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!