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

parents are too apt to mistake inclination for genius.

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.

No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

If I wanted to punish an enemy, it should be by fastening on him the trouble of constantly hating somebody.

It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.