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

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

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.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.