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Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

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.

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.

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.

Tutors who make youth learned do not always make them virtuous.

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.

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.

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.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

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.

To be a clergyman, and all that is compassionate and virtuous, ought to be the same thing.

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

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.

Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Vast is the field of Science. The more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition?

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

A husband's mother and his wife had generally better be visitors than inmates.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

Those who will bear much, shall have much to bear.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.

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.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

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