Reverence to a woman in courtship is less to be dispensed with, as, generally, there is but little of it shown afterwards.

Love before marriage is absolutely necessary.

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.

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

Air and manners are more expressive than words.

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.

I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.