From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

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

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

The richest princes and the poorest beggars are to have one great and just judge at the last day who will not distinguish betweenthem according to their ranks when in life but according to the neglected opportunities afforded to each. How much greater then, as the opportunities were greater, must be the condemnation of the one than of the other?