Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.