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.

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.

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.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.

A fop takes great pains to hang out a sign, by his dress, of what he has within.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.