Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.

The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.