The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

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

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

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

The coyest maids make the fondest wives.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!