There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

Luxury! more perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

Goals help you overcome short-term problems.

Indeed, I have, alas! outlived almost every one of my contemporaries. One pays dear for living long.

Resentment is an evil so costly to our peace that we should find it more cheap to forgive even were it no more right.

The education of the present race of females is not very favorable to domestic happiness. For my own part, I call education, not that which smothers a woman with accomplishments, but that which tends to consolidate a firm and regular system of character; that which tends to form a friend, a companion, and a wife.

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.