Though a censure lies against those who are poor and proud, yet is Pride sooner to be forgiven in a poor person than in a rich one; since in the latter it is insult and arrogance; in the former, it may be a defense against temptations to dishonesty; and, if manifested on proper occasions, may indicate a natural bravery of mind, which the frowns of fortune cannot depress.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.

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