Parents cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.
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.
What likelihood is there of corrupting a man who has no ambition.
Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.
Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.