There Are Two Considerations Which Always Imbitter

Some Virtuous Women Are Too Liberal In Their Insults To A Frail Sister; But Virtue Can Support Itself Without Borrowing Any Assistance From The Vices Of Other Women.

Conscience Is A Judge In Every Man's Breast, Which None Can Cheat Or Corrupt, And Perhaps The Only Incorrupt Thing About Him; Yet, Inflexible And Honest As This Judge Is (however Polluted The Bench On Which He Sits), No Man Can, In My Opinion, Enjoy Any Applause Which Is Not There Adjudged To Be His Due.

Success Is A Fruit Of Slow Growth.

The Only Source Of The True Ridiculous (as It Appears To Me) Is Affectation

The Devil Take Me, If I Think Anything But Love To Be The Object Of Love.