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.

Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one; which, next to doing good to a deserving object who wants it, is one of the greatest pleasures of this life.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.