Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.

'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.

People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.