Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

...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!

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.