 To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing. |
| A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates. |
| Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating. |
| The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master. |
| What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition? |
| Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated. |
| O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! |
| Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? |
| Women do not often fall in love with philosophers. |
| People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with. |
| From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured. |
| The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons. |
| Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves. |
| Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world. |
| Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves. |
| The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor. |
| Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it. |
| For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse. |
| Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight. |
| Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it. |
