Mutual complacency is the atmosphere of conjugal love.

Some have little power to do good, and have likewise little strength to resist evil.

Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

There is no crime more infamous than the violation of truth. It is apparent that men can be social beings no longer than they believe each other. When speech is employed only as the vehicle of falsehood, every man must disunite himself from others, inhabit his own cave and seek prey only for himself.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.

We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.

Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding can expect only to improve a single science.