when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.

It is quite fitting that charity should begin at home ... but then it should not end at home; for those that help nobody will find none to help them in time of need.

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape.

There is no moment like the present. The man who will not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.

Promises are dangerous things to ask or to give.

sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.