There would be no supporting life were we to feel quite as poignantly for others as we do for ourselves.

Good men must be affectionate men.

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

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Twenty-four is a prudent age for women to marry at.

Humility is a grace that shines in a high condition but cannot, equally, in a low one because a person in the latter is already, perhaps, too much humbled.

Women love those best (whether men, women, or children) who give them most pain.