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

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?

Platonic love is platonic nonsense.

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.