The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
From Samuel Richardson
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.
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.
Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.
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.
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.
Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
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