There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

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

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!