Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.

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.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.