What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

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

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.

Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.