The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.

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

Men are less forgiving than women.