Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.