Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.

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.

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.

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

A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof it carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung.

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