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

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

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

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.