Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

Honesty is a question of right and wrong, not a matter of policy

A good marriage (if any there be) refuses the conditions of love and endeavors to present those of amity.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Oh senseless man, who cannot possibly make a worm or a flea and yet will create Gods by the dozen!

Courtesy, like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and inclination to love one another at the first sight, and in the very beginning of our acquaintance and familiarity; and, consequently, that which first opens the door for us to better ourselves by the example of others, if there be anything in the society worth notice

There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.