“See in what peace a Christian can die.”
“The post of honor is a private station.”
“Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought.”
“Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.”
“Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.”
“Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable.”
“Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.”
“Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.”
“As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men.”
“There is nothing more requisite in business than dispatch.”
“Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.”
“There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.”
“Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.”
“What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.”
“Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.”
“A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants...”
“There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.”
“Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them.”
“Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.”
“A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.”
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to an human soul.”
“Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.”
“A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.”
“Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.”
“Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.”
“There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.”
“Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.”
“I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.”
“Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.”
“We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.”