A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

But let not those worthy young women, who may think themselves destined to a single life, repine over-much at their lot; since, possibly, if they have had no lovers, or having had one, two, or three, have not found a husband, they have had rather a miss than a loss, as men go.

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

There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.

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.

Beauty is an accidental and transient good.