To be gentle is the test of a lady.

All men will be Peters in their bragging tongue, and most men will be Peters in their base denial; but few men will be Peters in their quick repentance.

It is rare to see a rich man religious; for religion preaches restraint, and riches prompt to unlicensed freedom.

If ever I should affect injustice, it would be in this, that I might do courtesies and receive none.

Some are so uncharitable as to think all women bad, and others are so credulous as to believe they are all good. All will grant her corporeal frame more wonderful and more beautiful than man's. And can we think God would put a worse soul into a better body?

God has made no one absolute. The rich depend on the poor, as well as the poor on the rich. The world is but a magnificent building; all the stones are gradually cemented together. No one subsists by himself.

Pleasures can undo a man at any time, if yielded to.