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

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

Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.