“Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners”

“Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!”

“Memiliki rasa hormat pada diri sendiri akan membimbing moral kita,Memiliki rasa hormat terhadap orang lain akan menjaga sikap sopan santun kita.”

“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.”

“Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.”

“Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.”

“I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and of what kind of a mortal I am, by the one, would give you a better relish for the other: As you proceed further with me, the slight acquaintance which is now beginning betwixt us, will grow into familiarity; and that, unless one of us is in fault, will terminate in friendship.”