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

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

Out of mind as soon as out of sight.

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

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

Discernment is a power of the understanding in which few excel. Is not that owing to its connection with impartiality and truth? for are not prejudice and partiality blind?

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.