General notions are generally wrong.

Making verses is almost as common as taking snuff, and God can tell what miserable stuff people carry about in their pockets, and offer to all their acquaintances, and you know one cannot refuse reading and taking a pinch.

The ultimate end of your education was to make you a good wife.

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.

People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed.

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on.