 The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level. |
| The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one. |
| Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike. |
| People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question. |
| It is better to be thought perverse than insincere. |
| The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased. |
| As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man. |
| A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun. |
| Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends. |
| Women who have had no lovers, or having had one, two or three, have not found a husband, have perhaps rather had a miss than a loss, as men go. |
| We are all very ready to believe what we like. |
| Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor. |
| Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun. |
| A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope. |
| The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue. |
| Love before marriage is absolutely necessary. |
| The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad. |
| There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action. |
| Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity. |
| Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. |
