In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother.
we never know the blessings bestowed on us until we are separated from the possession of them.
Compulsion hardly restores right; love yields all things.
It is not designed that the road should be made too smooth for us here upon earth.
There is nothing so clear-sighted and sensible as a noble mind in a low estate.
The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.