Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

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.

The life of a good man was a continual warfare with his passions.

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.