It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

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.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.