We ought always to conform to the manners of the greater number, and so behave as not to draw attention to ourselves. Excess either way shocks, and every man truly wise ought to attend to this in his dress as well as language, never to be affected in anything and follow without being in too great haste the changes of fashion.

Wives rarely fuss about their beauty To guarantee their mate's affection.

The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.

Its as if you think you'd never find Reason and the Sacred intertwined

One is easily fooled by that which one loves.

There are pretenders to piety as well as to courage.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.