We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

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

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.