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

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

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.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.