Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

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.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

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.