Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.

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

The uselessness and expensiveness of modern women multiply bachelors.

Those who doubt themselves most generally err least.

For tutors, although they may make youth learned, do not always make them virtuous.

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