Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

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.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

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