Calamity is the test of integrity.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.

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