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

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.