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

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

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