Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.
People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
Over-niceness may be under-niceness.
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.