Novelist Quotes

Nothing dries sooner than tears.
Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.
O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!
Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.
People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.
People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.
Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.
Quantity in diet is more to be regarded than quality. A full meal is a great enemy both to study and industry.
Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.
Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.
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.
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious.
The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.
The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.
The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.
The English, the plain English, of the politest address of a gentleman to a lady is, I am now, dear Madam, your humble servant: Pray be so good as to let me be your Lord and Master.
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.
The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.
The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions.
The little words in the Republic of Letters, like the little folks in a nation, are the most useful and significant.
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