Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.

Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves.

In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.

It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and not a very arduous task to astonish them; but essentially to benefit and to improve them is a work fraught with difficulty, and teeming with danger.

Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight