There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

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

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.

Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.

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

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.