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.

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

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.