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.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.

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.