Reading is to the mind what exercising is to the body.

The married state, with and without the affection suitable to it, is the completest image of heaven and hell we are capable of receiving in this life

The truth of it is, the first rudiments of education are given very indiscreetly by most parents

Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth

That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty, without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.