Women never reason, or, if they do, they either draw correct inferences from wrong premises, or wrong inferences from correct premises; and they always poke the fire from the top.

Those who relish the study of character may profit by the reading of good works of fiction, the product of well-established authors.

To teach one who has no curiosity to learn, is to sow a field without ploughing it.

Ethical maxims are bandied about as a sort of current coin of discourse, and, being never melted down for use, those that are of base metal are never detected.

Man, considered not merely as an organized being, but as a rational agent and a member of society, is perhaps the most wonderfully contrived, and to us the most interesting specimen of Divine wisdom that we have any knowledge of.

Curiosity is as much the parent of attention, as attention is of memory.

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