Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

Beauty is a dangerous property, tending to corrupt the mind of the wife, though it soon loses its influence over the husband. A figure agreeable and engaging, which inspires affection, without the ebriety of love, is a much safer choice.

False praise is always confined to the great.

An infallible way to make your child miserable is to satisfy all his demands.

An agreeable figure and winning manner, which inspire affection without love, are always new. Beauty loses its relish, the graces never, after the longest acquaintance, they are no less agreeable than at first.

The coward reckons himself cautious, the miser frugal.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!