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.

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.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.