Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

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

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

All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.

Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.