The Pleasures Of The Mighty Are Obtained

If A Woman Knows A Man To Be A Libertine, Yet Will, Without Scruple, Give Him Her Company, He Will Think Half The Ceremony Between Them Is Over; And Will Probably Only Want An Opportunity To Make Her Repent Of Her Confidence In Him.

People Of Little Understanding Are Most Apt To Be Angry When Their Sense Is Called Into Question.

I Am Forced, As I Have Often Said, To Try To Make Myself Laugh, That I May Not Cry: For One Or Other I Must Do.

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.

We All Know By Theory That There Is No Permanent Happiness In This Life: But The Weight Of The Precept Is Not Felt In The Same Manner As When It Is Confirmed To Us By A Heavy Calamity.