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

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.

The World, thinking itself affronted by superior merit, takes delight to bring it down to its own level.

There are men who think themselves too wise to be religious.

Men are less forgiving than women.

The longer a woman remains single, the more apprehensive she will be of entering into the state of wedlock. At seventeen or eighteen, a girl will plunge into it, sometimes without either fear or wit; at twenty, she will begin to think; at twenty-four, will weigh and discriminate; at twenty-eight, will be afraid of venturing; at thirty, will turn about, and look down the hill she has ascended, and sometimes rejoice, sometimes repent, that she has gained that summit sola.

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.