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

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

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.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.