It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

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.

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.