Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Men who cherish for women the highest respect are seldom popular with them.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Beauty soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.

Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blowup in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world; and if in the present life his happiness arises from the subduing of his desires, it will arise in the next from the gratification of them.