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

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.

Those who have least to do are generally the most busy people in the world.

Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

Who would not rather be the sufferer than the defrauder?