Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.