There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

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

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.