Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

When we reflect upon the cruelties daily practised upon such of the animal creation as are given us for food, or which we ensnarefor our diversion, we shall be obliged to own that there is more of the savage in human nature than we are aware of.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

But let not those worthy young women, who may think themselves destined to a single life, repine over-much at their lot; since, possibly, if they have had no lovers, or having had one, two, or three, have not found a husband, they have had rather a miss than a loss, as men go.

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.