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

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.