Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

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!

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

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

He only who gave life has a power over it.