Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life