Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Men know no medium: They will either, spaniel-like, fawn at your feet, or be ready to leap into your lap.

A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.

The wisest among us is a fool in some things.

Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.

Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it.