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.

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

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

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

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

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.