Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.

A good man will extend his munificence to the industrious poor of all persuasions reduced by age, infirmity, or accident; to thosewho labour under incurable maladies; and to the youth of either sex, who are capable of beginning the world with advantage, but have not the means.

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

The first vice of the first woman was curiosity, and it runs through the whole sex.

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.