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.

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

'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.

It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause toshow, by their inattention, that I had said too much.

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

Chastity, like piety, is a uniform grace.

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