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

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.

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.