I honor most those to whom I show least honor; and where my soul moves with great alacrity, I forget the proper steps of ceremony.

Tis faith alone that vividly and certainly comprehends the deep mysteries of our religion.

Marriage, a market which has nothing free but the entrance.

Nature has with a Motherly Tenderness observed this, that the Action she has enjoyned us for our Necessity should be also pleasant to us, and invites us to them, not only by Reason, but also by Appetite: and ’tis Injustice to infringe her Laws.

It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.

Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

It is for little souls, that truckle under the weight of affairs, not to know how clearly to disengage themselves, and not to know how to lay them aside and take them up again.