The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

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

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

Tired of myself longing for what I have not