Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

...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!

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?