For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.

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

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?

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.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

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.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.