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

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

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

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

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