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?

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

...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!