Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery

If you would reform the world from its errors and vices, begin by enlisting the mothers.

When the heart is won, the understanding is easily convinced.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

A person's character is but half formed till after wedlock.

When a person feels disposed to over estimate his own importance, let him remember that mankind got along very well before his birth, and that in all probability they will they will get along very well after his death.

It is a great evil, as well as a misfortune, to be unable to utter a prompt and decided 'no'.