Calamity is the test of integrity.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.