Friendship is the perfection of love, and superior to love; it is love purified, exalted, proved by experience and a consent of minds. Love, Madam, may, and love does, often stop short of friendship.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else!

Old men, imagining themselves under obligation to young paramours, seldom keep any thing from their knowledge.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.