Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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.
Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
We are all very ready to believe what we like.
That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.