Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

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.

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.