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.

True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.

Human knowledge is the parent of doubt.

The world is an excellent judge in general, but a very bad one in particular.

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.

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

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.