The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.

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

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.