If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

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

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.