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

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Over-niceness may be under-niceness.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

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.

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

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.