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

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?

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

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

But let not those worthy young women, who may think themselves destined to a single life, repine over-much at their lot; since, possibly, if they have had no lovers, or having had one, two, or three, have not found a husband, they have had rather a miss than a loss, as men go.

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