Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

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

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.