The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

But let not those worthy young women, who may think themselves destined to a single life, repine over-much at their lot; since, possibly, if they have had no lovers, or having had one, two, or three, have not found a husband, they have had rather a miss than a loss, as men go.

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

Whenever we approve, we can find a hundred good reasons to justify our approbation. Whenever we dislike, we can find a thousand to justify our dislike.

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.