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?

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

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

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

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.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.