A Daughter: The companion, the friend, and the confidant of her mother, and the object of a pleasure something like the love between the angels to her father.

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

There is hardly that person to be found who is not more concerned for the reputation of wit and sense, than honesty and virtue.

Whether a pretty woman grants or withholds her favors, she always likes to be asked for them.

Conversation never sits easier upon us than when we now and then discharge ourselves in a symphony of laughter, which may not improperly be called the chorus of conversation.

It is the duty of a great person so to demean himself, as that whatever endowments he may have, he may appear to value himself upon no qualities but such as any man may arrive at.