At boarding schools of every description, the relaxation of the junior boys is mischief; and of the senior, vice.

The beginning is always today.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Friendship and domestic happiness are continually praised; yet how little is there of either in the world, because it requires more cultivation of mind to keep awake affection, even in our own hearts, than the common run of people suppose.

The endeavor to keep alive any hoary establishment beyond its natural date is often pernicious and always useless.

Women all want to be ladies, which is simply to have nothing to do, but listlessly to go they scarcely care where, for they cannot tell what.

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized.