Respect is better procured by exacting than soliciting it.

True joy is only hope put out of fear.

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

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.

A proud man never shows his pride so much as when he is civil.

Out of mind as soon as out of sight.

The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.