The Obedience of Children to their Parents is the Basis of all Government, and set forth as the measure of that Obedience which weowe to those whom Providence hath placed over us.

With regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.

In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

In the loss of an object we do not proportion our grief to the real value it bears, but to the value our fancies set upon it.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.