Good manners, to those one does not love, are no more a breach of truth, than "your humble servant," at the bottom of a challengeis; they are universally agreed upon, and understand to be things of course. They are necessary guards of the decency and peace of society.

Women are much more like each other than men: they have, in truth, but two passions, vanity and love; these are their universal characteristics.

I look upon indolence as a sort of suicide; for the man is effectually destroyed, though the appetites of the brute may survive.

Few fathers care much for their sons, or at least, most of them care more for their money. Of those who really love their sons, few know how to do it.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.

Let it be your maxim through life, to know all you can know, yourself; and never to trust implicitly to the information of others.