Spiritual pride is the most dangerous and the most arrogant of all sorts of pride.

Marriage is a state that is attended with so much care and trouble, that it is a kind of faulty indulgence and selfishness to livesingle, in order to avoid the difficulties it is attended with.

Prejudices in disfavor of a person fix deeper, and are much more difficult to be removed, than prejudices in favor.

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.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Youth is rather to be pitied than envied by people in years since it is doomed to toil through the rugged road of life which the others have passed through, in search of happiness that is not to be met with in it and that, at the highest, can be compounded for only by the blessing of a contented mind.

Angry men make themselves beds of nettles.