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

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

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

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?