It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men have dived for them because they fetch a high price.

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

It is one thing to wish to have truth on our side, and another to wish sincerely to be on the side of truth.

Falsehood, like poison, will generally be rejected when administered alone; but when blended with wholesome ingredients may be swallowed unperceived.

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.

All gaming, since it implies a desire to profit at the expense of another, involves a breach of the tenth commandment.

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.