Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.