Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it.

Woman is like the reed which bends to every breeze, but breaks not in the tempest.

Superstition is not, as has been defined, an excess of religious feeling, but a misdirection of it, an exhausting of it on vanities of man's devising.

As hardly anything can accidentally touch the soft clay without stamping its mark on it, so hardly any reading can interest a child, without contributing in some degree, though the book itself be afterwards totally forgotten, to form the character.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Great affectation and great absence of it are at first sight very similar.