It is a notable circumstance that mothers who are themselves open to severe comments as to their, moral character, are generally most solicitous as to the virtuous behavior of their daughters.

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.

Women read each other at a single glance.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

Reason is an historian, but the passions are actors.

Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea.

The cunning tempter, by avoiding the grossness of vice, often silences objections.