Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

It is but shaping the bribe to the taste, and every one has his price.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

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?

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

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?