Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Mutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature.

I have often reflected within myself on this unaccountable humor in womankind of being smitten with everything that is showy and superficial, and on the numberless evils that befall the sex from this light fantastical disposition.

All well-regulated families set apart an hour every morning for tea and bread and butter

Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one, and frost out of the other.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.