Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

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

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.