Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.

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.

A good man will honor him who lives up to his religious profession, whatever it be.

People who act like angels ought to have angels to deal with.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.