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

Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

the modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence.

It is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.

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.

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