Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

Despair gives the shocking ease to the mind that a mortification gives to the body.

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.

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.

Those men who are commended by everybody must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men.

A lively and agreeable man has not only the merit of liveliness and agreeableness himself, but that also of awakening them in others.

To divest one's self of some prejudices would be like taking off the skin to feel the better.