Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.

Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.