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

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

He only who gave life has a power over it.

Those commands of superiors which are contrary to our first duties are not to be obeyed.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.