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.

Hope is the cordial that keeps life from stagnating.

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

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Good men must be affectionate men.

The pleasures of the mighty are obtained by the tears of the poor.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?