When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief.

Love may be likened to a disease in this respect, that when it is denied a vent in one part, it will certainly break out in another; hence what a woman's lips often conceal, her eyes, her blushes, and many little involuntary actions betray.

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.

The prudence of the best heads is often defeated by tenderness of the best hearts.

It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected.

Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.

A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.