What The Unpenetrating World Call Humanity, Is

A Good Man Will Not Engage Even In A National Cause, Without Examining The Justice Of It.

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.

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.

There Are Men Who Think Themselves Too Wise To Be Religious.

The World, The Wise World, That Never Is Wrong Itself, Judges Always By Events. And If He Should Use Me Ill, Then I Shall Be Blamed For Trusting Him: If Well, O Then I Did Right, To Be Sure!--but How Would My Censurers Act In My Case, Before The Event Justifies Or Condemns The Action, Is The Question.