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.

There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

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

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.