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

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

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.

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.