Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with 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.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.