The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.

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.

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

Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.

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

Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.