Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

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

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

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

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.