People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

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

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

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.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

Tis certain that Morality is an indispensable Requisite of true Religion, and there can be none without it. But it would become the Pride and Ignorance of Pagans only, to magnify it, as the Whole of what is necessary.