A man who flatters a woman hopes either to find her a fool or to make her one.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

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

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

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.