Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

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.

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

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