Love gratified is love satisfied, and love satisfied is indifference begun.
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.
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
Women love to be called cruel, even when they are kindest.
Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.
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.
All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.
Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
Love is not a volunteer thing.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.
There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.
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.
Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer?
Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.
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.