Novelist

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.