The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

What pity that Religion and Love, which heighten our relish for the things of both worlds, should ever run the human heart into enthusiasm, superstition, or uncharitableness!

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.