The companion of an evening, and the companion for life, require very different qualifications.

Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

From sixteen to twenty, all women, kept in humor by their hopes and by their attractions, appear to be good-natured.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

If the education and studies of children were suited to their inclinations and capacities, many would be made useful members of society that otherwise would make no figure in it.