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.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

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.

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.

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

Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.