The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

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

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

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.