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

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.

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.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.