To what a bad choice is many a worthy woman betrayed, by that false and inconsiderate notion, That a reformed rake makes the best husband!

We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence.

Married people should not be quick to hear what is said by either when in ill humor.

The Nature of Familiar Letters, written, as it were, to the Moment, while the Heart is agitated by Hopes and Fears, on Events undecided, must plead an Excuse for the Bulk of a Collection of this Kind. Mere Facts and Characters might be comprised in a much smaller Compass: But, would they be equally interesting?

Every scholar, I presume, is not, necessarily, a man of sense.

The eye is the casement at which the heart generally looks out. Many a woman who will not show herself at the door, has tipt the sly, the intelligible wink from the window.

The difference in the education of men and women must give the former great advantages over the latter, even where geniuses are equal.