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.
Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.
How true is the observation that unrequited love turns to deepest hate.
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.
Quantity in food is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
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.
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.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
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