But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

At any rate girls are differently situated. Having no need of deep scientific knowledge their education is confined more to the ordinary things of the world the study of the fine arts and of the manners and dispositions of people.