The coquette has companions, indeed, but no lovers,--for love is respectful and timorous; and where among her followers will she find a husband?

It is scarcely credible to what degree discernment may be dazzled by the mist of pride, and wisdom infatuated by the intoxication of flattery.

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

How can children credit the assertions of parents, which their own eyes show them to be false? Few parents act in such a manner as much to enforce their maxims by the credit of their lives

A fallible being will fail somewhere.

While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.

The most Heterogeneous ideas are yoked by violence together.