Good-humor is allied to generosity, ill-humor to meanness.

I hardly know so melancholy a reflection as that parents are necessarily the sole directors of the management of children, whether they have or have not judgment, penetration or taste to perform the task.

The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.

The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular.

I have often thought that the nature of women was interior to that of men in general, but superior in particular.

Weak men often from the very principle of their weakness derive a certain susceptibility; delicacy and taste which render them, in those particulars, much superior to men of stronger and more consistent minds, who laugh at them.

Our companions please us less from the charms we find in their conversation than from those they find in ours.