We can all be good when we have no temptation or provocation to the contrary.

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

Women are sometimes drawn in to believe against probability by the unwillingness they have to doubt their own merit.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.

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

Handsome husbands often make a wife's heart ache.