As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.

For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

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

The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?

Women's eyes are wanderers, and too often bring home guests that are very troublesome to them, and whom, once introduced, they cannot get out of the house.