The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant. |
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation. |
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. |
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications. |
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating. |
It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves. |
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious. |
There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious. |
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal. |
There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be. |
Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear. |
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband. |
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves. |
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor. |
Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation. |
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense. |
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health. |
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views. Topics: Life |
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest. |
Calamity is the test of integrity. |