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

A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.

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.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.