People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

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?

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

...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!

Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.