Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

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 cannot expect advice to have the same force upon their children as experience has upon themselves.

Rakes are more suspicious than honest men.

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

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.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.