Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

The World is not enough used to this way of writing, to the moment. It knows not that in the minutiae lie often the unfoldings ofthe Story, as well as of the heart; and judges of an action undecided, as if it were absolutely decided.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

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.

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

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.

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.