What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?

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

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

What the unpenetrating world call Humanity, is often no more than a weak mind pitying itself.

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.