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.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!

Men are less forgiving than women.