Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

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.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

...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!

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.