The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

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

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.

Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.

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.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

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