"Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous."

"There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action."

"Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole."

"Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry."

"Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating."

"Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense."

"Love before marriage is absolutely necessary."

"Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity."

"There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be."

"The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level."

"To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!"

"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."

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

"We are all very ready to believe what we like."

"The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one."

"A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive."

"The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications."

"For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse."

"The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons."

"It is better to be thought perverse than insincere."

"All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest."

"If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it."

"What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?"

"Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled."

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

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

"Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go."

"O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!"

"Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest."

"Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor."

"It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves."

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

"Calamity is the test of integrity."

"Nothing dries sooner than tears."

"Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others."

"The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions."

"There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband."

"Women do not often fall in love with philosophers."

"A man may keep a woman, but not his estate."

"Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated."

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

"There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves."

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

"There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious."

"People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with."

"Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves."

"Those we dislike can do nothing to please us."

"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."

"Sorrow makes an ugly face odious."

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