Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

Of what violences, murders, depredations, have not the epic poets, from all antiquity, been the occasion, by propagating false honor, false glory, and false religion?