Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.

What a world is this! What is there in it desirable? The good we hope for so strangely mixed, that one knows not what to wish for!And one half of mankind tormenting the other, and being tormented themselves in tormenting!

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

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.

Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health.