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

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

We are all very ready to believe what we like.

Love is not a volunteer thing.

The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?

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

The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.