Love will draw an elephant through a key-hole.

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.

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

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

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.

That dangerous but too commonly received notion, that a reformed rake makes the best husband.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.