The unhappy never want enemies.

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

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question.

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.

Vast is the field of Science... the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know.

There is a pride, a self-love, in human minds that will seldom be kept so low as to make men and women humbler than they ought to be.

Marriage is the highest state of friendship. If happy, it lessens our cares by dividing them, at the same time that it doubles our pleasures by mutual participation.