Good men must be affectionate men.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

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 so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

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.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.