It may be no less dangerous to claim, on certain occasions, too little than too much. There is something captivating in spirit and intrepidity, to which we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can we often yield as to a resistless power; nor can he reasonably expect the confidence of others who too apparently distrusts himself.

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

Be not too hasty to trust or to admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.

Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.

Those who will not take the trouble to think for themselves, have always somebody that thinks for them; and the difficulty in writing is to please those from whom others learn to be pleased.