Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
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.
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.
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.
A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.