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!

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

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.

I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

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