There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

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.

A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.