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

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

Superstitious notions propagated in infancy are hardly ever totally eradicate, not even in minds grown strong enough to despise the like credulous folly in others.

The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through.

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.

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

The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue.