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

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

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

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

What pleasure can those over-happy persons know, who, from their affluence and luxury, always eat before they are hungry and drink before they are thirsty?

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

The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.