The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

O lord! your wise men are the greatest fools upon earth; they reason about their enjoyments, and analyse their pleasures, whilst the essence escapes.

It requires genius to make a good pun -- some men of bright parts can't reach it.

The charms that heIped to catch the husband are generally laid by, one after another, till the lady grows a downright wife, and then runs crying to her mother, because she has transformed her lover into a downright, husband.

Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.