Women do not often fall in love with philosophers.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.