There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

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

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.

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.