Whom we fear more than love, we are not far from hating.

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

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.

Smatterers in learning are the most opinionated.

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but to allow for different modes of education, for situation and constitution, or perhaps I should rather say, for habits, whether good or bad.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.