The world, the wise world, that never is wrong itself, judges always by events. And if he should use me ill, then I shall be blamed for trusting him: if well, O then I did right, to be sure!--But how would my censurers act in my case, before the event justifies or condemns the action, is the question.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

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