Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

A good man, though he will value his own countrymen, yet will think as highly of the worthy men of every nation under the sun.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

Good men must be affectionate men.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.