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.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.

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

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.