She who makes her husband and her children happy, who reclaims the one from vice, and trains up the other to virtue, is a much greater character than the ladies described in romance, whose whole occupation is to murder mankind with shafts from their quiver or their eyes.

To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

A mind too vigorous and active, serves only to consume the body to which it is joined.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.