A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

All women, from the countess to the cook-maid, are put into high good humor with themselves when a man is taken with them at firstsight. And be they ever so plain, they will find twenty good reasons to defend the judgment of such a man.

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.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

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.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?